P-glycoproteins and uses thereof

ABSTRACT

The invention pertains to dog P-glycoproteins and related P-glycoproteins which include dog-specific amino acids, as well as nucleic acids which encode those polypeptides. The present invention also includes fragments and biologically functional variants of the dog P-glycoprotein. The invention further relates to methods of using such dog P-glycoprotein nucleic acids and polypeptides, especially in methods for determining bioavailability of drugs and for screening for inhibitors of dog PGP. Also included are dog PGP inhibitors which inhibit dog PGP activity by inhibiting the expression or function of dog PGP.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 from U.S.provisional patent application No. 60/156,510, filed Sep. 28, 1999.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention pertains to P-glycoproteins of dog (Canis familiaris).

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

P-glycoprotein (PGP; also known as multidrug transporter, MDR1) is amember of the ABC transporter superfamily and is expressed in the humanintestine, liver and other tissues. This enzyme serves as an efflux pumpexporting small molecules across the cell membrane. It has been knownfor several years that high level expression of PGP is a mechanism fortumor resistance to cancer chemotherapy. Intestinal expression of PGPmay affect the oral bioavailability of drug molecules that aresubstrates for this transporter. PGP can efficiently efflux drugs backinto the intestinal lumen and thus reduce the amount of drug that entersinto circulation.

The measurement of interaction with PGP can provide a betterunderstanding of the reasons why particular drugs demonstrate low orhigh bioavailability. Interaction with PGP can be studied using eitherdirect assays of drug transport in polarized cell systems or withindirect assays such as drug-stimulated ATPase activity and inhibitionof the transport of fluorescent substrates.

Therefore there is a need for additional PGP polypeptides, preferablywhich are closely related to the human PGP, for use in the foregoingdrug assays.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Nucleic acids encoding P-glycoprotein of dog (Canis familiaris) have nowbeen identified, isolated, cloned and sequenced. This PGP is closelyrelated (has a high degree of identity) to the human PGP. The inventionprovides isolated nucleic acid molecules, unique fragments of thosemolecules, expression vectors containing the foregoing, and host cellstransfected with those molecules. The invention also provides isolatedpolypeptides and inhibitors of the foregoing nucleic acids andpolypeptides which reduce drug transport. The PGP nucleic acids andpolypeptides are useful in assays for evaluating bioavailability ofdrugs, as well as for the optimization or discovery of drugs. Inaddition, the foregoing can be used in the diagnosis or treatment ofconditions characterized by PGP activity and can be used in methods inwhich it is therapeutically useful to increase or decrease PGP activity.

According to one aspect of the invention, an isolated nucleic acidmolecule is provided which is selected from the group consisting of (a)nucleic acid molecules that code for the amino acid sequence of SEQ IDNO:2, (b) allelic variants of (a), wherein the allelic variants excludeSEQ ID NO:3 and SEQ ID NO:5, and (c) complements of (a) or (b).Preferred allelic variants include nucleic acid molecules that encode anamino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:23,SEQ ID NO:25 and SEQ ID NO:27, particularly nucleotide sequencesselected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:22, SEQ ID NO:24 and SEQID NO:26. In preferred embodiments the isolated nucleic acid moleculecodes for SEQ ID NO:2, or comprises the nucleotide sequence of SEQ IDNO:1. In particularly preferred embodiments, the nucleic acid moleculescomprise or consist of the coding region of the aforementionednucleotide sequences.

According to other aspects of the invention, isolated P-glycoproteinpolypeptides or fragments thereof are provided. The polypeptides includeat least one amino acid of a dog P-glycoprotein selected from the groupconsisting of amino acids 25, 192, 197, 212, 288, 329, 532, 696,1273 and1355 of SEQ ID NO:2; amino acid 25 of SEQ ID NO:23; and amino acids 25and 1148 of SEQ ID NO:25. Other isolated P-glycoprotein polypeptides orfragments thereof include at least one amino acid of a dogP-glycoprotein selected from the group consisting of amino acids 3, 6,8, 10, 12, 14-26, 36, 38, 48, 52, 56, 64, 74, 78, 84-92, 94, 96, 98, 99,101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 112, 115, 147, 187, 197, 199, 233, 288, 321,326, 347, 397, 450, 454, 455, 467, 472, 520, 633, 637, 643, 644, 650,657, 658, 661, 666, 667, 674-677, 679, 685, 689, 691, 693, 694, 703,707, 717, 731, 736, 740, 744, 745, 756, 759, 763, 853, 914, 920, 942,943, 946, 968-970, 972, 974, 983, 1005, 1010, 1017, 1025, 1026, 1029,1040, 1095, 1098, 1105, 1144, 1148, 1149, 1158, 1162, 1165, 1168, 1170,1252 and 1279 of SEQ ID NO:2; and amino acid 329 of SEQ ID NO:27,wherein the P-glycoprotein is identical to a human P-glycoprotein exceptfor the at least one amino acid of a dog P-glycoprotein. In certainembodiments, the human P-glycoprotein is selected from the group of SEQID NO:7 and SEQ ID NO:8. Still other isolated P-glycoproteinpolypeptides or fragments thereof include at least one amino acid of adog P-glycoprotein that is different from a cynomologous P-glycoprotein,wherein the P-glycoprotein is identical to a cynomologous monkeyP-glycoprotein except for the at least one amino acid of a dogP-glycoprotein. Yet other polypeptides include combinations of theforegoing dog, human and cynomologous PGP polypeptides. In preferredembodiments, the isolated P-glycoprotein polypeptides or fragmentsthereof include an amino acid sequence selected from the groupconsisting of SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:25, SEQ ID NO:27,fragments of SEQ ID NO:2, fragments of SEQ ID NO:23, fragments of SEQ IDNO:25 and fragments of SEQ ID NO:27.

According to still other embodiments of the invention, isolated nucleicacid molecules are provide which encode the foregoing isolatedP-glycoprotein polypeptides or fragments thereof Also includedexpression vectors comprising the foregoing isolated nucleic acidmolecules operably linked to a promoter, as well as host cellstransformed or transfected with the expression vectors.

In another aspect of the invention, agents which selectively binds theisolated PGP polypeptides are provided. Preferably the agent does notbind a human or dog P-glycoprotein, except those provided herein. Incertain embodiments, the agent is a polypeptide preferably one selectedfrom the group consisting of monoclonal antibodies, polyclonalantibodies, Fab antibody fragments, F(ab)₂ antibody fragments andantibody fragments including a CDR3 region. Also provided are agentswhich selectively binds the foregoing isolated nucleic acid molecules,preferably antisense nucleic acid molecules which selectively binds tothe isolated nucleic acid molecule.

According to another aspect of the invention, methods for predicting thebioavailability of a compound are provided. The methods includemeasuring the transmembrane transport of a test compound by a firstP-glycoprotein, comparing the transmembrane transport of the testcompound by the first P-glycoprotein and a second P-glycoprotein topredict the bioavailability of the test compound, wherein the relativeamount or rate of transport by the first P-glycoprotein and the secondP-glycoprotein is predictive of bioavailability of the test compound. Incertain embodiments the first P-glycoprotein is selected from the groupconsisting of dog P-glycoproteins and primate P-glycoproteins,preferably one of the foregoing polypeptides. In other embodiments thesecond P-glycoprotein is a human P-glycoprotein.

In still other aspects of the invention, methods for inhibitingP-glycoprotein transporter activity in a mammalian cell are provided.The methods include contacting the mammalian cell with an amount of oneof the foregoing agents effective to inhibit P-glycoprotein transporteractivity in the mammalian cell.

Also included in the invention are methods for increasingbioavailability of a drug in a subject. The methods includeadministering to a subject in need of such treatment one of theforegoing agents in an amount effective to increasing bioavailability ofa drug. The inhibitor can be administered prior to administering thedrug, or concurrently with the drug.

Also provided are methods for increasing P-glycoprotein transporteractivity in a cell. These methods include contacting the cell with amolecule selected from the group consisting of the foregoing nucleicacid molecules, in an amount effective to increase P-glycoproteintransporter activity in the cell. The cell can be contacted underconditions whereby the P-glycoprotein is expressed.

According to yet another aspect of the invention, methods foridentifying lead compounds for a pharmacological agent useful in thetreatment of disease associated with P-glycoprotein transporter activityare provided. The methods include providing a cell or othermembrane-encapsulated space comprising a P-glycoprotein as providedherein; contacting the cell or other membrane-encapsulated space with acandidate pharmacological agent under conditions which, in the absenceof the candidate pharmacological agent, cause a first amount ofP-glycoprotein transporter activity; and determining a second amount ofP-glycoprotein transporter activity as a measure of the effect of thepharmacological agent on the P-glycoprotein transporter activity,wherein a second amount of P-glycoprotein transporter activity which isless than the first amount indicates that the candidate pharmacologicalagent is a lead compound for a pharmacological agent which reducesP-glycoprotein transporter activity and wherein a second amount ofP-glycoprotein transporter activity which is greater than the firstamount indicates that the candidate pharmacological agent is a leadcompound for a pharmacological agent which increases P-glycoproteintransporter activity. The methods can further include a step of loadingthe cell or other membrane-encapsulated space with a detectablecompound, wherein the compound is detected as a measure of theP-glycoprotein transporter activity.

Also included are methods for identifying compounds which selectivelybind a P-glycoprotein. The methods include contacting a P-glycoproteinprovided herein with a compound, and determining the binding of thecompound to the P-glycoprotein. The methods can further includedetermining the effect of the compound on the P-glycoprotein transporteractivity of the P-glycoprotein or determining the effect of the compoundon the ATPase activity of the P-glycoprotein.

Additional methods provided according to the invention include methodsfor determining ATPase activity of a P-glycoprotein. The methods includecontacting a host cell as provided above, or a membrane fractionthereof, with a test drug, and measuring ATPase activity of theP-glycoprotein. In certain embodiments, the step of measuring ATPaseactivity is performed at least twice at different times. Also providedmethods for determining transmembrane transport of a compound by aP-glycoprotein. The methods include contacting a host cell providedabove, or a membrane fraction thereof, with a test drug, and measuringtransport of the test drug under sink conditions in at least onedirection of transport selected from the group consisting of the apicalto basolateral direction and the basolateral to apical direction. Incertain embodiments the step of measuring transport of the test drug isperformed at least twice at different times.

These and other aspects of the invention are described in greater detailbelow.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCES

SEQ ID NO:1 is the nucleotide sequence encoding dog P-glycoprotein(Genotype C).

SEQ ID NO:2 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:1.

SEQ ID NO:3 is the nucleotide sequence encoding a prior art dogP-glycoprotein (GenBank accession number AF045016).

SEQ ID NO:4 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:3.

SEQ ID NO:5 is the nucleotide sequence encoding another prior art dogP-glycoprotein (GenBank accession number AF092810).

SEQ ID NO:6 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:5.

SEQ ID NO:7 is the amino acid sequence of a prior art humanP-glycoprotein, having Genbank accession number M14758.

SEQ ID NO:8 is the amino acid sequence of a second prior art humanP-glycoprotein, having Genbank accession numbers AF016535 orNM_(—)000927.

SEQ ID NO:9 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tohuman PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:10 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP2.

SEQ ID NO:11 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:12 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tohuman PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:13 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:14 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tohuman PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:15 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:16 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tohuman PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:17 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:18 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tovector.

SEQ ID NO:19 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:20 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous tohuman PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:21 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:22 is the nucleotide sequence encoding dog P-glycoprotein(Genotype A).

SEQ ID NO:23 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:22.

SEQ ID NO:24 is the nucleotide sequence encoding dog P-glycoprotein(Genotype B).

SEQ ID NO:25 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:24.

SEQ ID NO:26 is the nucleotide sequence encoding dog P-glycoprotein(Genotype D).

SEQ ID NO:27 is the amino acid sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein encodedby SEQ ID NO:25.

SEQ ID NO:28 is the nucleotide sequence of the cDNA synthesis primerfrom the Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit.

SEQ ID NO:29 is the nucleotide sequence of the cDNA Adapter Primer 1from the Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit.

SEQ ID NO:30 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:31 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

SEQ ID NO:32 is the nucleotide sequence of a PCR primer homologous todog PGP1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention in one aspect involves the identification of novelcDNAs encoding dog P-glycoproteins, referred to herein as dog PGP. Thenucleotide sequence of a dog PGP (termed “Genotype C”) is presented asSEQ ID NO:1, and the amino acid sequence of this dog PGP is presented asSEQ ID NO:2.

Three allelic variants of Genotype C dog PGP were isolated (“GenotypeA”, “Genotype B” and “Genotype D”). The nucleotide and amino acidsequences of Genotype A are presented as SEQ ID NOs:20 and 21,respectively. The amino acid sequence of Genotype A differs from theamino acid sequence of Genotype C at amino acid 197(histidine→glutamine) based on a C→A change at nucleotide 607 of SEQ IDNO:2. The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of Genotype B arepresented as SEQ ID NOs:22 and 23, respectively. The amino acid sequenceof Genotype B differs from the amino acid sequence of Genotype C atamino acid 25 (asparagine→lysine) based on a T→A change at nucleotide 91of SEQ ID NO:2, and at amino acid 197 (histidine→glutamine) based on aC→A change at nucleotide 607 of SEQ ID NO:2. The nucleotide and aminoacid sequences of Genotype D are presented as SEQ ID NOs:24 and 25,respectively. The amino acid sequence of Genotype D differs from theamino acid sequence of Genotype C at amino acid 25 (asparagine→lysine)based on a T→A change at nucleotide 91 of SEQ ID NO:2, at amino acid 197(histidine→glutamine) based on a C→A change at nucleotide 607 of SEQ IDNO:2, at amino acid 329 (serine→threonine) based on a T→A change atnucleotide 1001 of SEQ ID NO:2, and at amino acid 1148(methionine→valine) based on a A→G change at nucleotide 3458 of SEQ IDNO:2.

Two closely related dog PGP sequence were deposited in GenBank underaccession numbers AF045016 (complete cDNA) and AF092810 (partial cDNA).Whereas much of the polypeptides presented herein is identical to theknown dog PGPs, the dog PGPs of the invention (SEQ ID NOs:2, 21, 23 and25) have several single amino acid differences from the prior artsequences, including at least one deletion. These allelic differences inthe very highly conserved protein domains of the P-glycoprotein areentirely unexpected.

The invention involves in one aspect dog PGP nucleic acids andpolypeptides, as well as therapeutics relating thereto. The inventionalso embraces isolated functionally equivalent variants, useful analogsand fragments of the foregoing nucleic acids and polypeptides;complements of the foregoing nucleic acids; and molecules whichselectively bind the foregoing nucleic acids and polypeptides.

The dog PGP nucleic acids and polypeptides of the invention areisolated. As used herein with respect to nucleic acids, the term“isolated” means: (i) amplified in vitro by, for example, polymerasechain reaction (PCR); (ii) recombinantly produced by cloning; (iii)purified, as by cleavage and gel separation; or (iv) synthesized by, forexample, chemical synthesis. An isolated nucleic acid is one which isreadily manipulable by recombinant DNA techniques well known in the art.Thus, a nucleotide sequence contained in a vector in which 5′ and 3′restriction sites are known or for which polymerase chain reaction (PCR)primer sequences have been disclosed is considered isolated but anucleic acid sequence existing in its native state in its natural hostis not. An isolated nucleic acid may be substantially purified, but neednot be. For example, a nucleic acid that is isolated within a cloning orexpression vector is not pure in that it may comprise only a tinypercentage of the material in the cell in which it resides. Such anucleic acid is isolated, however, as the term is used herein because itis readily manipulable by standard techniques known to those of ordinaryskill in the art. An isolated nucleic acid as used herein is not anaturally occurring chromosome.

As used herein with respect to polypeptides, “isolated” means separatedfrom its native environment and present in sufficient quantity to permitits identification or use. Isolated, when referring to a protein orpolypeptide, means, for example: (i) selectively produced by expressioncloning or (ii) purified as by chromatography or electrophoresis.Isolated proteins or polypeptides may be, but need not be, substantiallypure. The term “substantially pure” means that the proteins orpolypeptides are essentially free of other substances with which theymay be found in nature or in vivo systems to an extent practical andappropriate for their intended use. Substantially pure polypeptides maybe produced by techniques well known in the art. Because an isolatedprotein may be admixed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier in apharmaceutical preparation, the protein may comprise only a smallpercentage by weight of the preparation. The protein is nonethelessisolated in that it has been separated from the substances with which itmay be associated in living systems, i.e. isolated from other proteins.

As used herein a dog PGP nucleic acid refers to an isolated nucleic acidmolecule which codes for a dog PGP polypeptide. Such nucleic acidmolecules code for dog PGP polypeptides which include the amino acidsequences of SEQ ID NO:2, 23, 25, 27 and fragments thereof The nucleicacid molecules include the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NO:1, andnucleotide sequences which differ from the sequences of SEQ ID NO:1, incodon sequence due to the degeneracy of the genetic code. The dog PGPnucleic acids of the invention also include alleles (e.g., SEQ IDNos:22, 24, 26) of the foregoing nucleic acids (except those ofpreviously known dog PGP alleles, e.g., SEQ ID NOS:3 and 5), and encodedpolypeptides, as well as fragments of the foregoing nucleic acids andpolypeptides. Such fragments can be used, for example, as probes inhybridization assays and as primers in a polymerase chain reaction(PCR). Preferred dog PGP nucleic acids include the nucleic acidsequences of SEQ ID NOs:1, 22, 24, 26 and fragments thereof. Complementsof the foregoing nucleic acids also are embraced by the invention.

As used herein “dog PGP activity” refers to an ability of a PGPpolypeptide to export small molecules across the cell membrane. Amolecule which inhibits dog PGP activity (an antagonist) is one whichinhibits export of small molecules via PGP and a molecule whichincreases dog PGP activity (an agonist) is one which increases export ofsmall molecules via PGP. Changes in dog PGP activity can be measured byassays such as those disclosed herein, including efflux of fluorescentcompounds from cells.

Alleles of the dog PGP nucleic acids of the invention can be identifiedby conventional techniques. For example, alleles of dog PGP can beisolated by hybridizing a probe which includes at least a fragment ofSEQ ID NO:1 under stringent conditions with a cDNA library and selectingpositive clones. Thus, an aspect of the invention is those nucleic acidsequences which code for dog PGP polypeptides and which hybridize to anucleic acid molecule consisting of SEQ ID NO:1 under stringentconditions (except those of previously known dog PGP alleles, e.g., SEQID NOS:3 and 5). The term “stringent conditions” as used herein refersto parameters with which the art is familiar. Nucleic acid hybridizationparameters may be found in references which compile such methods, e.g.Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, J. Sambrook, et al., eds.,Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor,N.Y., 1989, or Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, F. M. Ausubel, etal., eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. More specifically,stringent conditions, as used herein, refers, for example, tohybridization at 65° C. in hybridization buffer (3.5×SSC, 0.02% Ficoll,0.02% polyvinyl pyrrolidone, 0.02% Bovine Serum Albumin, 2.5 mMNaH₂PO₄(pH7), 0.5% SDS, 2 mM EDTA). SSC is 0.15M sodium chloride/0.15Msodium citrate, pH7; SDS is sodium dodecyl sulphate; and EDTA isethylenediaminetetracetic acid. After hybridization, the membrane uponwhich the DNA is transferred is washed at 2×SSC at room temperature andthen at 0.1-0.5×SSC/0.1×SDS at temperatures up to 68° C.

There are other conditions, reagents, and so forth which can be used,which result in a similar degree of stringency. The skilled artisan willbe familiar with such conditions, and thus they are not given here. Itwill be understood, however, that the skilled artisan will be able tomanipulate the conditions in a manner to permit the clear identificationof alleles of dog PGP nucleic acids of the invention. The skilledartisan also is familiar with the methodology for screening cells andlibraries for expression of such molecules which then are routinelyisolated, followed by isolation of the pertinent nucleic acid moleculeand sequencing.

In screening for dog PGP nucleic acids, a Southern blot may be performedusing the foregoing stringent conditions, together with a radioactiveprobe. After washing the membrane to which the DNA is finallytransferred, the membrane can be placed against X-ray film to detect theradioactive signal.

The dog PGP nucleic acids of the invention also include degeneratenucleic acids which include alternative codons to those present in thenative materials. For example, serine residues are encoded by the codonsTCA, AGT, TCC, TCG, TCT and AGC. Each of the six codons is equivalentfor the purposes of encoding a serine residue. Thus, it will be apparentto one of ordinary skill in the art that any of the serine-encodingnucleotide triplets may be employed to direct the protein synthesisapparatus, in vitro or in vivo, to incorporate a serine residue into anelongating dog PGP polypeptide. Similarly, nucleotide sequence tripletswhich encode other amino acid residues include, but are not limited to:CCA, CCC, CCG and CCT (proline codons); CGA, CGC, CGG, CGT, AGA and AGG(arginine codons); ACA, ACC, ACG and ACT (threonine codons); AAC and AAT(asparagine codons); and ATA, ATC and ATT (isoleucine codons). Otheramino acid residues may be encoded similarly by multiple nucleotidesequences. Thus, the invention embraces degenerate nucleic acids thatdiffer from the biologically isolated nucleic acids in codon sequencedue to the degeneracy of the genetic code.

The invention also provides modified nucleic acid molecules whichinclude additions, substitutions and deletions of one or morenucleotides. In preferred embodiments, these modified nucleic acidmolecules and/or the polypeptides they encode retain at least oneactivity or function of the unmodified nucleic acid molecule and/or thepolypeptides, such as transporter activity, etc. In certain embodiments,the modified nucleic acid molecules encode modified polypeptides,preferably polypeptides having conservative amino acid substitutions asare described elsewhere herein. The modified nucleic acid molecules arestructurally related to the unmodified nucleic acid molecules and inpreferred embodiments are sufficiently structurally related to theunmodified nucleic acid molecules so that the modified and unmodifiednucleic acid molecules hybridize under stringent conditions known to oneof skill in the art.

For example, modified nucleic acid molecules which encode polypeptideshaving single amino acid changes can be prepared. Each of these nucleicacid molecules can have one, two or three nucleotide substitutionsexclusive of nucleotide changes corresponding to the degeneracy of thegenetic code as described herein. Likewise, modified nucleic acidmolecules which encode polypeptides having two amino acid changes can beprepared which have, e.g., 2-6 nucleotide changes. Numerous modifiednucleic acid molecules like these will be readily envisioned by one ofskill in the art, including for example, substitutions of nucleotides incodons encoding amino acids 2 and 3, 2 and 4, 2 and 5, 2 and 6, and soon. In the foregoing example, each combination of two amino acids isincluded in the set of modified nucleic acid molecules, as well as allnucleotide substitutions which code for the amino acid substitutions.Additional nucleic acid molecules that encode polypeptides havingadditional substitutions (i.e., 3 or more), additions or deletions(e.g., by introduction of a stop codon or a splice site(s)) also can beprepared and are embraced by the invention as readily envisioned by oneof ordinary skill in the art. Any of the foregoing nucleic acids orpolypeptides can be tested by routine experimentation for retention ofstructural relation or activity to the nucleic acids and/or polypeptidesdisclosed herein.

The invention also provides isolated fragments of SEQ ID NO:1. Thefragments can be used as probes in Southern blot assays to identify suchnucleic acids, or can be used in amplification assays such as thoseemploying PCR. Smaller fragments are those comprising 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 30, 40, 50, or 75 nucleotides, and every integertherebetween, and are useful e.g. as primers for nucleic acidamplification procedures. As known to those skilled in the art, largerprobes such as 200, 250, 300, 400 or more nucleotides are preferred forcertain uses such as Southern blots, while smaller fragments will bepreferred for uses such as PCR. Fragments also can be used to producefusion proteins for generating antibodies or determining binding of thepolypeptide fragments. Likewise, fragments can be employed to producenon-fused fragments of the dog PGP polypeptides, useful, for example, inthe preparation of antibodies, in immunoassays, and the like. Theforegoing nucleic acid fragments further can be used as antisensemolecules to inhibit the expression of dog PGP nucleic acids andpolypeptides, particularly for therapeutic purposes as described ingreater detail below.

The invention also includes functionally equivalent variants of the dogPGP, which include variant nucleic acids and polypeptides which retainone or more of the functional properties of the dog PGP. For example,variants include a fusion protein which includes the extracellular andtransmembrane domains of the dog PGP which retains the ability totransport molecules. Still other functionally equivalent variantsinclude truncations, deletions, point mutations, or additions of aminoacids to the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 which retains functions of SEQ IDNOs:2, e.g., the alleles presented herein. Functionally equivalentvariants also include a dog PGP which has had a portion of theN-terminus removed or replaced by a similar domain from anotherP-glycoprotein (e.g. a “domain-swapping” variant). Other functionallyequivalent variants will be known to one of ordinary skill in the art,as will methods for preparing such variants. The activity of afunctionally equivalent variant can be determined using the methodsprovided herein, and in references that have described assays usingP-glycoproteins of other species. Such variants are useful, inter alia,for evaluating bioavailability of drugs, in assays for identification ofcompounds which bind and/or regulate the transporter function of the dogPGP, and for determining the portions of the dog PGP which are requiredfor transporter activity.

Variants which are non-functional also can be prepared as describedabove. Such variants are useful, for example, as negative controls inexperiments testing transporter activity.

A dog PGP nucleic acid, in one embodiment, is operably linked to a geneexpression sequence which directs the expression of the dog PGP nucleicacid within a eukaryotic or prokaryotic cell. The “gene expressionsequence” is any regulatory nucleotide sequence, such as a promotersequence or promoter-enhancer combination, which facilitates theefficient transcription and translation of the dog PGP nucleic acid towhich it is operably linked. The gene expression sequence may, forexample, be a mammalian or viral promoter, such as a constitutive orinducible promoter. Constitutive mammalian promoters include, but arenot limited to, the promoters for the following genes: hypoxanthinephosphoribosyl transferase (HPTR), adenosine deaminase, pyruvate kinase,β-actin promoter and other constitutive promoters. Exemplary viralpromoters which function constitutively in eukaryotic cells include, forexample, promoters from the simian virus, papilloma virus, adenovirus,human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Rous sarcoma virus, cytomegalovirus,the long terminal repeats (LTR) of Moloney murine leukemia virus andother retroviruses, and the thymidine kinase promoter of herpes simplexvirus. Other constitutive promoters are known to those of ordinary skillin the art. The promoters useful as gene expression sequences of theinvention also include inducible promoters. Inducible promoters areexpressed in the presence of an inducing agent. For example, themetallothionein promoter is induced to promote transcription andtranslation in the presence of certain metal ions. Other induciblepromoters are known to those of ordinary skill in the art.

In general, the gene expression sequence shall include, as necessary, 5′non-transcribing and 5′ non-translating sequences involved with theinitiation of transcription and translation, respectively, such as aTATA box, capping sequence, CAAT sequence, and the like. Especially,such 5′ non-transcribing sequences will include a promoter region whichincludes a promoter sequence for transcriptional control of the operablyjoined dog PGP nucleic acid. The gene expression sequences optionallyincludes enhancer sequences or upstream activator sequences as desired.

The dog PGP nucleic acid sequence and the gene expression sequence aresaid to be “operably linked” when they are covalently linked in such away as to place the transcription and/or translation of the dog PGPcoding sequence under the influence or control of the gene expressionsequence. If it is desired that the dog PGP sequence be translated intoa functional protein, two DNA sequences are said to be operably linkedif induction of a promoter in the 5′ gene expression sequence results inthe transcription of the dog PGP sequence and if the nature of thelinkage between the two DNA sequences does not (1) result in theintroduction of a frame-shift mutation, (2) interfere with the abilityof the promoter region to direct the transcription of the dog PGPsequence, or (3) interfere with the ability of the corresponding RNAtranscript to be translated into a protein. Thus, a gene expressionsequence would be operably linked to a dog PGP nucleic acid sequence ifthe gene expression sequence were capable of effecting transcription ofthat dog PGP nucleic acid sequence such that the resulting transcriptmight be translated into the desired protein or polypeptide.

The dog PGP nucleic acid molecules and the dog PGP polypeptides(including the dog PGP inhibitors described below) of the invention canbe delivered to the eukaryotic or prokaryotic cell alone or inassociation with a vector. In its broadest sense, a “vector” is anyvehicle capable of facilitating: (1) delivery of a dog PGP nucleic acidor polypeptide to a target cell, (2) uptake of a dog PGP nucleic acid orpolypeptide by a target cell, or (3) expression of a dog PGP nucleicacid molecule or polypeptide in a target cell. Preferably, the vectorstransport the dog PGP nucleic acid or polypeptide into the target cellwith reduced degradation relative to the extent of degradation thatwould result in the absence of the vector. Optionally, a “targetingligand” can be attached to the vector to selectively deliver the vectorto a cell which expresses on its surface the cognate receptor (e.g. areceptor, an antigen recognized by an antibody) for the targetingligand. In this manner, the vector (containing a dog PGP nucleic acid ora dog PGP polypeptide) can be selectively delivered to a specific cell.In general, the vectors useful in the invention are divided into twoclasses: biological vectors and chemical/physical vectors. Biologicalvectors are more useful for delivery/uptake of dog PGP nucleic acidsto/by a target cell. Chemical/physical vectors are more useful fordelivery/uptake of dog PGP nucleic acids or dog PGP proteins to/by atarget cell.

Biological vectors include, but are not limited to, plasmids, phagemids,viruses, other vehicles derived from viral or bacterial sources thathave been manipulated by the insertion or incorporation of the nucleicacid sequences of the invention, and free nucleic acid fragments whichcan be linnked to the nucleic acid sequences of the invention. Viralvectors are a preferred type of biological vector and include, but arenot limited to, nucleic acid sequences from the following viruses:retroviruses, such as Moloney murine leukemia virus; Harvey murinesarcoma virus; murine mammary tumor virus; Rous sarcoma virus;adenovirus; adeno-associated virus; SV40-type viruses; polyoma viruses;poxviruses; retroviruses; Epstein-Barr viruses; papilloma viruses;herpes virus; vaccinia virus; and polio virus. One can readily employother vectors not named but known in the art.

Preferred viral vectors are based on non-cytopathic eukaryotic virusesin which non-essential genes have been replaced with the gene ofinterest. Non-cytopathic viruses include retroviruses, the life cycle ofwhich involves reverse transcription of genomic viral RNA into DNA withsubsequent proviral integration into host cellular DNA. In general, theretroviruses are replication-deficient (i.e., capable of directingsynthesis of the desired proteins, but incapable of manufacturing aninfectious particle). Such genetically altered retroviral expressionvectors have general utility for the high-efficiency transduction ofgenes in vivo. Standard protocols for producing replication-deficientretroviruses (including the steps of incorporation of exogenous geneticmaterial into a plasmid, transfection of a packaging cell line withplasmid, production of recombinant retroviruses by the packaging cellline, collection of viral particles from tissue culture media, andinfection of the target cells with viral particles) are provided inKriegler, M., “Gene Transfer and Expression, A Laboratory Manual,” W. H.Freeman C. O., New York (1990) and Murry, E. J. Ed. “Methods inMolecular Biology,” vol. 7, Humana Press, Inc., Clifton, N.J. (1991).

Another preferred virus for certain applications is the adeno-associatedvirus, a double-stranded DNA virus. The adeno-associated virus can beengineered to be replication-deficient and is capable of infecting awide range of cell types and species. It further has advantages, such asheat and lipid solvent stability; high transduction frequencies in cellsof diverse lineages; and lack of superinfection inhibition thus allowingmultiple series of transductions. Reportedly, the adeno-associated viruscan integrate into human cellular DNA in a site-specific manner, therebyminimizing the possibility of insertional mutagenesis and variability ofinserted gene expression. In addition, wild-type adeno-associated virusinfections have been followed in tissue culture for greater than 100passages in the absence of selective pressure, implying that theadeno-associated virus genomic integration is a relatively stable event.The adeno-associated virus can also function in an extrachromosomalfashion.

Expression vectors containing all the necessary elements for expressionare commercially available and known to those skilled in the art See,e.g., Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, SecondEdition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989. Cells aregenetically engineered by the introduction into the cells ofheterologous DNA (RNA) encoding a dog PGP polypeptide or fragment orvariant thereof. That heterologous DNA (RNA) is placed under operablecontrol of transcriptional elements to permit the expression of theheterologous DNA in the host cell.

Preferred systems for mRNA expression in mammalian cells are those suchas pRc/CMV (available from Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) that contain aselectable marker such as a gene that confers G418 resistance (whichfacilitates the selection of stably transfected cell lines) and thehuman cytomegalovirus (CMV) enhancer-promoter sequences. Additionally,suitable for expression in primate or canine cell lines is the pCEP4vector (Invitrogen), which contains an Epstein Barr virus (EBV) originof replication, facilitating the maintenance of plasmid as a multicopyextrachromosomal element. Another expression vector is the pEF-BOSplasmid containing the promoter of polypeptide Elongation Factor 1α,which stimulates efficiently transcription in vitro. The plasmid isdescribed by Mishizuma and Nagata (Nuc. Acids Res. 18:5322, 1990), andits use in transfection experiments is disclosed by, for example,Demoulin (Mol. Cell. Biol. 16:4710-4716, 1996). Still another preferredexpression vector is an adenovirus, described by Stratford-Perricaudet,which is defective for E1 and E3 proteins (J. Clin. Invest. 90:626-630,1992).

In addition to the biological vectors, chemical/physical vectors may beused to deliver a dog PGP nucleic acid or polypeptide to a target celland facilitate uptake thereby. As used herein, a “chemical/physicalvector” refers to a natural or synthetic molecule, other than thosederived from bacteriological or viral sources, capable of delivering theisolated dog PGP nucleic acid or polypeptide to a cell.

A preferred chemical/physical vector of the invention is a colloidaldispersion system. Colloidal dispersion systems include lipid-basedsystems including oil-in-water emulsions, micelles, mixed micelles, andliposomes. A preferred colloidal system of the invention is a liposome.Liposomes are artificial membrane vesicles which are useful as adelivery vector in vivo or in vitro. It has been shown that largeunilamellar vesicles (LUV), which range in size from 0.2-4.0μ canencapsulate large macromolecules. RNA, DNA, and intact virions can beencapsulated within the aqueous interior and be delivered to cells in abiologically active form (Fraley, et al., Trends Biochem. Sci., v. 6, p.77 (1981)). In order for a liposome to be an efficient nucleic acidtransfer vector, one or more of the following characteristics should bepresent: (1) encapsulation of the nucleic acid of interest at highefficiency with retention of biological activity; (2) preferential andsubstantial binding to a target cell in comparison to non-target cells;(3) delivery of the aqueous contents of the vesicle to the target cellcytoplasm at high efficiency; and (4) accurate and effective expressionof genetic information.

Liposomes may be targeted to a particular tissue by coupling theliposome to a specific ligand such as a monoclonal antibody, sugar,glycolipid, or protein. Ligands which may be useful for targeting aliposome to a particular cell will depend on the particular cell ortissue type. Additionally when the vector encapsulates a nucleic acid,the vector may be coupled to a nuclear targeting peptide, which willdirect the dog PGP nucleic acid to the nucleus of the host cell.

Liposomes are commercially available from Gibco BRL, for example, asLIPOFECTINT™ and LIPOFECTACE™, which are formed of cationic lipids suchas N-[1-(2, 3 dioleyloxy)-propyl]-N, N, N-trimethylammonium chloride(DOTMA) and dimethyl dioctadecylammonium bromide (DDAB). Methods formaking liposomes are well known in the art and have been described inmany publications.

Other exemplary compositions that can be used to facilitate uptake by atarget cell of the dog PGP nucleic acids include calcium phosphate andother chemical mediators of intracellular transport, microinjectioncompositions, electroporation and homologous recombination compositions(e.g., for integrating a dog PGP nucleic acid into a preselectedlocation within a target cell chromosome).

The invention also embraces so-called expression kits, which allow theartisan to prepare a desired expression vector or vectors. Suchexpression kits include at least separate portions of the previouslydiscussed coding sequences. Other components may be added, as desired,as long as the previously mentioned sequences, which are required, areincluded.

It will also be recognized that the invention embraces the use of thedog PGP cDNA sequences in expression vectors, as well as to transfecthost cells and cell lines, be these prokaryotic (e.g., E. coli), oreukaryotic (e.g., COS cells, yeast expression systems and recombinantbaculovirus expression in insect cells). Especially useful are mammaliancells such as human, pig, goat, primate, etc. They may be of a widevariety of tissue types, and include primary cells and cell lines.Specific examples include intestinal cells and liver cells. Theexpression vectors require that the pertinent sequence, i.e., thosenucleic acids described supra, be operably linked to a promoter.

The invention also provides isolated dog PGP polypeptides which includethe amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, and fragments thereof, encodedby the dog PGP nucleic acids described above. Dog PGP polypeptides alsoembrace alleles, such as SEQ ID NOs:23, 25 and 27 (except not SEQ IDNOS:3 and 5), functionally equivalent variants and analogs (thosenon-allelic polypeptides which vary in amino acid sequence from thedisclosed dog PGP polypeptides by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or more amino acids)provided that such polypeptides retain dog PGP activity. Non-functionalvariants also are embraced by the invention; these are useful asantagonists of transporter function, as negative controls in assays, andthe like. Such alleles, variants, analogs and fragments are useful, forexample, alone or as fusion proteins for a variety of purposes includingas a component of assays.

Fragments of a polypeptide preferably are those fragments which retain adistinct functional capability of the dog PGP polypeptide, in particularas a transporter of various molecules. Other functional capabilitieswhich can be retained in a fragment of a dog PGP polypeptide includeinteraction with antibodies and interaction with other polypeptides(such as would be found in a protein complex). Those skilled in the artare well versed in methods for selecting fragments which retain afunctional capability of the dog PGP. Confirmation of the functionalcapability of the fragment can be carried out by synthesis of thefragment and testing of the capability according to standard methods.For example, to test the transporter activity of a dog PGP fragment, oneinserts or expresses the fragment in a cell in which molecular transportcan be measured. Such methods, which are standard in the art, aredescribed further herein.

The invention embraces variants of the dog PGP polypeptides describedabove. As used herein, a “variant” of a dog PGP polypeptide is apolypeptide which contains one or more modifications to the primaryamino acid sequence of a dog PGP polypeptide. Modifications which createa dog PGP variant can be made to a dog PGP polypeptide for a variety ofreasons, including 1) to reduce or eliminate an activity of a dog PGPpolypeptide, such as transport; 2) to enhance a property of a dog PGPpolypeptide, such as protein stability in an expression system or thestability of protein-protein binding; 3) to provide a novel activity orproperty to a dog PGP polypeptide, such as addition of an antigenicepitope or addition of a detectable moiety; or 4) to establish that anamino acid substitution does or does not affect molecular transportactivity. Modifications to a dog PGP polypeptide are typically made tothe nucleic acid which encodes the dog PGP polypeptide, and can includedeletions, point mutations, truncations, amino acid substitutions andadditions of amino acids or non-amino acid moieties. Alternatively,modifications can be made directly to the polypeptide, such as bycleavage, addition of a linker molecule, addition of a detectablemoiety, such as biotin, addition of a fatty acid, and the like.Modifications also embrace fusion proteins comprising all or part of thedog PGP amino acid sequence. One of skill in the art will be familiarwith methods for predicting the effect on protein conformation of achange in protein sequence, and can thus “design” a variant dog PGPaccording to known methods. One example of such a method is described byDahiyat and Mayo in Science 278:82-87, 1997, whereby proteins can bedesigned de novo. The method can be applied to a known protein to vary aonly a portion of the polypeptide sequence. By applying thecomputational methods of Dahiyat and Mayo, specific variants of a dogPGP polypeptide can be proposed and tested to determine whether thevariant retains a desired conformation.

Variants include dog PGP polypeptides which are modified specifically toalter a feature of the polypeptide unrelated to its physiologicalactivity. For example, cysteine residues can be substituted or deletedto prevent unwanted disulfide linkages. Similarly, certain amino acidscan be changed to enhance expression of a dog PGP polypeptide byeliminating proteolysis by proteases in an expression system (e.g.,dibasic amino acid residues in yeast expression systems in which KEX2protease activity is present).

Mutations of a nucleic acid which encode a dog PGP polypeptidepreferably preserve the amino acid reading frame of the coding sequence,and preferably do not create regions in the nucleic acid which arelikely to hybridize to form secondary structures, such as hairpins orloops, which can be deleterious to expression of the variantpolypeptide.

Mutations can be made by selecting an amino acid substitution, or byrandom mutagenesis of a selected site in a nucleic acid which encodesthe polypeptide. Variant polypeptides are then expressed and tested forone or more activities to determine which mutation provides a variantpolypeptide with a desired property. Further mutations can be made tovariants (or to non-variant dog PGP polypeptides) which are silent as tothe amino acid sequence of the polypeptide, but which provide preferredcodons for translation in a particular host. The preferred codons fortranslation of a nucleic acid in, e.g., E. coli, are well known to thoseof ordinary skill in the art. Still other mutations can be made to thenoncoding sequences of a dog PGP gene or cDNA clone to enhanceexpression of the polypeptide.

The activity of variants of dog PGP polypeptides can be tested bycloning the gene encoding the variant dog PGP polypeptide into abacterial or mammalian expression vector, introducing the vector into anappropriate host cell, expressing the variant dog PGP polypeptide, andtesting for a functional capability of the dog PGP polypeptides asdisclosed herein. For example, the variant dog PGP polypeptide can betested for ability to provide molecular transport (e.g., efflux), as setforth below in the examples. Preparation of other variant polypeptidesmay favor testing of other activities, as will be known to one ofordinary skill in the art.

The skilled artisan will also realize that conservative amino acidsubstitutions may be made in dog PGP polypeptides to providefunctionally equivalent variants of the foregoing polypeptides, i.e,variants which retain the functional capabilities of the dog PGPpolypeptides. As used herein, a “conservative amino acid substitution”refers to an amino acid substitution which does not alter the relativecharge or size characteristics of the polypeptide in which the aminoacid substitution is made. Variants can be prepared according to methodsfor altering polypeptide sequence known to one of ordinary skill in theart such as are found in references which compile such methods, e.g.Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, J. Sambrook, et al., eds.,Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor,N.Y., 1989, or Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, F. M. Ausubel, etal., eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. Exemplary functionallyequivalent variants of the dog PGP polypeptides include conservativeamino acid substitutions of SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:4. Conservativesubstitutions of amino acids include substitutions made amongst aminoacids within the following groups: (a) M, I, L, V; (b) F, Y, W; (c) K,R, H; (d) A, G; (e) S, T; (f) Q, N; and (g) E, D.

Conservative amino-acid substitutions in the amino acid sequence of dogPGP polypeptide to produce functionally equivalent variants of dog PGPtypically are made by alteration of the nucleic acid sequence encodingdog PGP polypeptides (e.g., SEQ ID NO:1). Such substitutions can be madeby a variety of methods known to one of ordinary skill in the art. Forexample, amino acid substitutions may be made by PCR-directed mutation,site-directed mutagenesis according to the method of Kunkel (Kunkel,Proc. Nat. Acad Sci. U.S.A. 82: 488-492, 1985), or by chemical synthesisof a gene encoding a dog PGP polypeptide. The activity of functionallyequivalent fragments of dog PGP polypeptides can be tested by cloningthe gene encoding the altered dog PGP polypeptide into a bacterial ormammalian expression vector, introducing the vector into an appropriatehost cell, expressing the altered dog PGP polypeptide, and testing forthe ability of the dog PGP polypeptide to mediate transmembranetransport of compounds. Peptides which are chemically synthesized can betested directly for function.

A variety of methodologies well-known to the skilled practitioner can beutilized to obtain isolated dog PGP molecules. The polypeptide may bepurified from cells which naturally produce the polypeptide bychromatographic means or immunological recognition. Alternatively, anexpression vector may be introduced into cells to cause production ofthe polypeptide. In another method, mRNA transcripts may bemicroinjected or otherwise introduced into cells to cause production ofthe encoded polypeptide. Translation of mRNA in cell-free extracts suchas the reticulocyte lysate system also may be used to producepolypeptide. Those skilled in the art also can readily follow knownmethods for isolating dog PGP polypeptides. These include, but are notlimited to, immunochromatography, HPLC, size-exclusion chromatography,ion-exchange chromatography and immune-affinity chromatography.

The invention as described herein has a number of uses, some of whichare described elsewhere herein. For example, the invention permitsisolation of the dog PGP polypeptide molecules by e.g., expression of arecombinant nucleic acid to produce large quantities of polypeptidewhich may be isolated using standard protocols. As another example, theisolation of the dog PGP gene makes it possible for dog PGP to be usedin methods for assaying of molecular transport, such as drugbioavailability studies. These methods involve determining transport ofa drug by a first species' PGP (e.g., dog) in comparison to transport ofthe drug by other species' PGP (e.g. human) as a method for determiningor predicting the bioavailability of the drug. Thus the results of wholeanimal studies on the metabolism of a drug can be evaluated in view ofthe relative rates or amounts of P-glycoprotein transport of the drug.For example, if a drug administered to a dog has good oralbioavailability and low transport by dog PGP, one can predict that theoral bioavailability of the drug in humans will be good if the transportby human PGP is also low. Conversely, if the transport of the drug byhuman PGP is high, then the bioavailability of the drug would bepredicted to be low.

The invention also embraces agents which bind selectively to the dog PGPnucleic acid molecules or polypeptides as well as agents which bind tovariants and fragments of the polypeptides and nucleic acids asdescribed herein. The agents include polypeptides which bind to dog PGP,and antisense nucleic acids, both of which are described in greaterdetail below. The agents can inhibit or increase dog PGP activity(antagonists and agonists, respectively).

Some of the agents are inhibitors. A dog PGP inhibitor is an agent thatinhibits dog PGP mediated transport of molecules across a cell membrane.Efflux assays can be performed to screen and/or determine whether a dogPGP inhibitor has the ability to inhibit dog PGP activity, and whetherthe inhibition is selective. An exemplary assay of efflux is describedbelow in the Examples.

In one embodiment the dog PGP inhibitor is an antisense oligonucleotidethat selectively binds to a dog PGP nucleic acid molecule, to reduce theexpression of dog PGP (or other species' PGPs) in a cell. This isdesirable in virtually any medical condition wherein a reduction of PGPtransporter activity is desirable, e.g., to increase retention ofcytotoxic agents in a cell.

As used herein, the term “antisense oligonucleotide” or “antisense”describes an oligonucleotide that is an oligoribonucleotide,oligodeoxyribonucleotide, modified oligoribonucleotide, or modifiedoligodeoxyribonucleotide which hybridizes under physiological conditionsto DNA comprising a particular gene or to an mRNA transcript of thatgene and, thereby, inhibits the transcription of that gene and/or thetranslation of that mRNA. The antisense molecules are designed so as tointerfere with transcription or translation of a target gene uponhybridization with the target gene or transcript. Those skilled in theart will recognize that the exact length of the antisenseoligonucleotide and its degree of complementarity with its target willdepend upon the specific target selected, including the sequence of thetarget and the particular bases which comprise that sequence. It ispreferred that the antisense oligonucleotide be constructed and arrangedso as to bind selectively with the target under physiologicalconditions, i.e., to hybridize substantially more to the target sequencethan to any other sequence in the target cell under physiologicalconditions. Based upon SEQ ID NO:1, or upon allelic (except SEQ ID NOS:3and 5)or homologous genomic and/or cDNA sequences, one of skill in theart can easily choose and synthesize any of a number of appropriateantisense molecules for use in accordance with the present invention. Inorder to be sufficiently selective and potent for inhibition, suchantisense oligonucleotides should comprise at least 10 and, morepreferably, at least 15 consecutive bases which are complementary to thetarget, although in certain cases modified oligonucleotides as short as7 bases in length have been used successfully as antisenseoligonucleotides (Wagner et al., Nature Biotechnol. 14:840-844, 1996).Most preferably, the antisense oligonucleotides comprise a complementarysequence of 20-30 bases. Although oligonucleotides may be chosen whichare antisense to any region of the gene or mRNA transcripts, inpreferred embodiments the antisense oligonucleotides correspond toN-terminal or 5′ upstream sites such as translation initiation,transcription initiation or promoter sites. In addition, 3′-untranslatedregions may be targeted. Targeting to mRNA splicing sites has also beenused in the art but may be less preferred if alternative mRNA splicingoccurs. In addition, the antisense is targeted, preferably, to sites inwhich mRNA secondary structure is not expected (see, e.g., Sainio etal., Cell Mol. Neurobiol. 14(5):439-457, 1994) and at which polypeptidesare not expected to bind. Thus, the present invention also provides forantisense oligonucleotides which are complementary to allelic (exceptSEQ ID NOS:3 and 5) or homologous cDNAs and genomic DNAs correspondingto a dog PGP nucleic acid containing SEQ ID NO:1.

In one set of embodiments, the antisense oligonucleotides of theinvention may be composed of “natural” deoxyribonucleotides,ribonucleotides, or any combination thereof That is, the 5′ end of onenative nucleotide and the 3′ end of another native nucleotide may becovalently linked, as in natural systems, via a phosphodiesterinternucleoside linkage. These oligonucleotides may be prepared by artrecognized methods which may be carried out manually or by an automatedsynthesizer. They also may be produced recombinantly by vectors.

In preferred embodiments, however, the antisense oligonucleotides of theinvention also may include “modified” oligonucleotides. That is, theoligonucleotides may be modified in a number of ways which do notprevent them from hybridizing to their target but which enhance theirstability or targeting or which otherwise enhance their therapeuticeffectiveness.

The term “modified oligonucleotide” as used herein describes anoligonucleotide in which (1) at least two of its nucleotides arecovalently linked via a synthetic internucleoside linkage (i.e., alinkage other than a phosphodiester linkage between the 5′ end of onenucleotide and the 3′ end of another nucleotide) and/or (2) a chemicalgroup not normally associated with nucleic acids has been covalentlyattached to the oligonucleotide. Preferred synthetic internucleosidelinkages are phosphorothioates, alkylphosphonates, phosphorodithioates,phosphate esters, alkylphosphonothioates, phosphoramidates, carbamates,carbonates, phosphate triesters, acetamidates, carboxymethyl esters andpeptides.

The term “modified oligonucleotide” also encompasses oligonucleotideswith a covalently modified base and/or sugar. For example, modifiedoligonucleotides include oligonucleotides having backbone sugars whichare covalently attached to low molecular weight organic groups otherthan a hydroxyl group at the 3′ position and other than a phosphategroup at the 5′ position. Thus modified oligonucleotides may include a2′-O-alkylated ribose group. In addition, modified oligonucleotides mayinclude sugars such as arabinose instead of ribose. The presentinvention, thus, contemplates pharmaceutical preparations containingmodified antisense molecules that are complementary to and hybridizablewith, under physiological conditions, nucleic acids encoding dog PGPpolypeptides, together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers.

Agents which bind dog PGP also include binding peptides and othermolecules which bind to the dog PGP polypeptide and complexes containingthe dog PGP polypeptide. When the binding molecules are inhibitors, themolecules bind to and inhibit the activity of dog PGP. To determinewhether a dog PGP binding agent binds to dog PGP any known binding assaymay be employed. For example, the binding agent may be immobilized on asurface and then contacted with a labeled dog PGP polypeptide. Theamount of dog PGP which interacts with the dog PGP binding agent or theamount which does not bind to the dog PGP binding agent may then bequantitated to determine whether the dog PGP binding agent binds to dogPGP.

The dog PGP binding agents include molecules of numerous size and typethat bind selectively or preferentially to dog PGP polypeptides, andcomplexes of both dog PGP polypeptides and their binding partners. Thesemolecules may be derived from a variety of sources. For example, dog PGPbinding agents can be provided by screening degenerate peptide librarieswhich can be readily prepared in solution, in immobilized form or asphage display libraries. Combinatorial libraries also can be synthesizedof peptides containing one or more amino acids. Libraries further can besynthesized of peptoids and non-peptide synthetic moieties.

Phage display can be particularly effective in identifying bindingpeptides useful according to the invention. Briefly, one prepares aphage library (using e.g. m13, fd, or lambda phage), displaying insertsfrom 4 to about 80 amino acid residues using conventional procedures.The inserts may represent, for example, a completely degenerate orbiased array. One then can select phage-bearing inserts which bind tothe dog PGP polypeptide. This process can be repeated through severalcycles of reselection of phage that bind to the dog PGP polypeptide.Repeated rounds lead to enrichment of phage bearing particularsequences. DNA sequence analysis can be conducted to identify thesequences of the expressed polypeptides. The minimal linear portion ofthe sequence that binds to the dog PGP polypeptide can be determined.One can repeat the procedure using a biased library containing insertscontaining part or all of the minimal linear portion plus one or moreadditional degenerate residues upstream or downstream thereof. Yeasttwo-hybrid screening methods also may be used to identify polypeptidesthat bind to the dog PGP polypeptides. Thus, the dog PGP polypeptides ofthe invention, or a fragment thereof, can be used to screen peptidelibraries, including phage display libraries, to identify and selectpeptide binding partners of the dog PGP polypeptides of the invention.Such molecules can be used, as described, for screening assays, forpurification protocols, for interfering directly with the functioning ofdog PGP and for other purposes that will be apparent to those ofordinary skill in the art.

Therefore the invention generally provides efficient methods ofidentifying pharmacological agents or lead compounds for agents usefulin the treatment of conditions associated with aberrant PGP activity andthe compounds and agents so identified. Generally, the screening methodsinvolve assaying for compounds which inhibit or enhance transport ofmolecules through dog PGP. Such methods are adaptable to automated, highthroughput screening of compounds. Examples of such methods aredescribed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,429,921.

A variety of assays for pharmacological agents are provided, including,labeled in vitro protein binding assays, efflux assays using detectablemolecules, etc. For example, protein binding screens are used to rapidlyexamine the binding of candidate pharmacological agents to a dog PGP.The candidate pharmacological agents can be derived from, for example,combinatorial peptide libraries. Convenient reagents for such assays areknown in the art. An exemplary cell-based assay of efflux involvescontacting a cell having a dog PGP with a candidate pharmacologicalagent under conditions whereby the efflux of a detectably labeledmolecule can occur. Specific conditions are well known in the art andare described, for example, in Sharom et al., Biochem. Pharmacol.58:571-586, 1999, and references cited therein. A reduction in theefflux in the presence of the candidate pharmacological agent indicatesthat the candidate pharmacological agent reduces the efflux activity ofdog PGP. An increase in the efflux in the presence of the candidatepharmacological agent indicates that the candidate pharmacological agentincreases the efflux activity of dog PGP.

Dog PGP used in the methods of the invention can be added to an assaymixture as an isolated polypeptide (where binding of a candidatepharmaceutical agent is to be measured) or as a cell or othermembrane-encapsulated space which includes a dog PGP polypeptide. In thelatter assay configuration, the cell or other membrane-encapsulatedspace can contain the dog PGP as a preloaded polypeptide or as a nucleicacid (e.g. a cell transfected with an expression vector containing a dogPGP). In the assays described herein, the dog PGP polypeptide can beproduced recombinantly, or isolated from biological extracts, butpreferably is synthesized in vitro. Dog PGP polypeptides encompasschimeric proteins comprising a fusion of a dog PGP polypeptide withanother polypeptide, e.g., a polypeptide capable of providing orenhancing protein-protein binding, or enhancing stability of the dog PGPpolypeptide under assay conditions. A polypeptide fused to a dog PGPpolypeptide or fragment thereof may also provide means of readilydetecting the fusion protein, e.g., by immunological recognition or byfluorescent labeling.

The assay mixture also comprises a candidate pharmacological agent.Typically, a plurality of assay mixtures are run in parallel withdifferent agent concentrations to obtain a different response to thevarious concentrations. Typically, one of these concentrations serves asa negative control, i.e., at zero concentration of agent or at aconcentration of agent below the limits of assay detection. Candidateagents encompass numerous chemical classes, although typically they areorganic compounds. Preferably, the candidate pharmacological agents aresmall organic compounds, i.e., those having a molecular weight of morethan 50 yet less than about 2500. Candidate agents comprise functionalchemical groups necessary for structural interactions with polypeptides,and typically include at least an amine, carbonyl, hydroxyl or carboxylgroup, preferably at least two of the functional chemical groups andmore preferably at least three of the functional chemical groups. Thecandidate agents can comprise cyclic carbon or heterocyclic structureand/or aromatic or polyaromatic structures substituted with one or moreof the above-identified functional groups. Candidate agents also can bebiomolecules such as peptides, saccharides, fatty acids, sterols,isoprenoids, purines, pyrimidines, derivatives or structural analogs ofthe above, or combinations thereof and the like. Where the agent is anucleic acid, the agent typically is a DNA or RNA molecule, althoughmodified nucleic acids having non-natural bonds or subunits are alsocontemplated.

Candidate agents are obtained from a wide variety of sources includinglibraries of synthetic or natural compounds. For example, numerous meansare available for random and directed synthesis of a wide variety oforganic compounds and biomolecules, including expression of randomizedoligonucleotides, synthetic organic combinatorial libraries, phagedisplay libraries of random peptides, and the like. Alternatively,libraries of natural compounds in the form of bacterial, fungal, plantand animal extracts are available or readily produced. Additionally,natural and synthetically produced libraries and compounds can bereadily modified through conventional chemical, physical, andbiochemical means. Further, known pharmacological agents may besubjected to directed or random chemical modifications such asacylation, alkylation, esterification, amidification, etc. to producestructural analogs of the agents.

Therefore, a source of candidate agents are libraries of molecules basedon known P-glycoprotein inhibitors, in which the structure of theinhibitor is changed at one or more positions of the molecule to containmore or fewer chemical moieties or different chemical moieties. Thestructural changes made to the molecules in creating the libraries ofanalog inhibitors can be directed, random, or a combination of bothdirected and random substitutions and/or additions. One of ordinaryskill in the art in the preparation of combinatorial libraries canreadily prepare such libraries based on existing P-glycoproteininhibitors.

A variety of other reagents also can be included in the mixture. Theseinclude reagents such as salts, buffers, neutral proteins (e.g.,albumin), detergents, etc. which may be used to facilitate optimalprotein-protein and/or protein-nucleic acid binding. Such a reagent mayalso reduce non-specific or background interactions of the reactioncomponents. Other reagents that improve the efficiency of the assay suchas protease inhibitors, nuclease inhibitors, antimicrobial agents, andthe like may also be used.

The mixture of the foregoing assay materials is incubated underconditions whereby, but for the presence of the candidatepharmacological agent, the dog PGP mediates the efflux of a controlamount of a compound such as a drug. For determining the binding of acandidate pharmaceutical agent to a dog PGP, the mixture is incubatedunder conditions which permit binding. The order of addition ofcomponents, incubation temperature, time of incubation, and otherparameters of the assay may be readily determined. Such experimentationmerely involves optimization of the assay parameters, not thefundamental composition of the assay. Incubation temperatures typicallyare between 4° C. and 40° C. Incubation times preferably are minimizedto facilitate rapid, high throughput screening, and typically arebetween 1 minute and 10 hours.

After incubation, the level of efflux or the level of specific bindingbetween the dog PGP polypeptide and the candidate pharmaceutical agentis detected by any convenient method available to the user. For cellfree binding type assays, a separation step is often used to separatebound from unbound components. The separation step may be accomplishedin a variety of ways. Conveniently, at least one of the components isimmobilized on a solid substrate, from which the unbound components maybe easily separated. The solid substrate can be made of a wide varietyof materials and in a wide variety of shapes, e.g., microtiter plate,microbead, dipstick, resin particle, etc. The substrate preferably ischosen to maximize signal to noise ratios, primarily to minimizebackground binding, as well as for ease of separation and cost.

Separation may be effected for example, by removing a bead or dipstickfrom a reservoir, emptying or diluting a reservoir such as a microtiterplate well, rinsing a bead, particle, chromatographic column or filterwith a wash solution or solvent. The separation step preferably includesmultiple rinses or washes. For example, when the solid substrate is amicrotiter plate, the wells may be washed several times with a washingsolution, which typically includes those components of the incubationmixture that do not participate in specific bindings such as salts,buffer, detergent, non-specific protein, etc. Where the solid substrateis a magnetic bead, the beads may be washed one or more times with awashing solution and isolated using a magnet.

Detection may be effected in any convenient way for cell-based assayssuch as a transmembrane transport assay. The transport of a directly orindirectly detectable product, e.g., a fluorescent molecule such ascalcein AM or rhodamine 123, is preferred. For cell free binding assays,one of the components usually comprises, or is coupled to, a detectablelabel. A wide variety of labels can be used, such as those that providedirect detection (e.g., radioactivity, luminescence, optical or electrondensity, etc). or indirect detection (e.g., epitope tag such as the FLAGepitope, enzyme tag such as horseradish peroxidase, etc.). The label maybe bound to a dog PGP polypeptide or the candidate pharmacologicalagent.

A variety of methods may be used to detect the label, depending on thenature of the label and other assay components. For example, the labelmay be detected while bound to the solid substrate or subsequent toseparation from the solid substrate. Labels may be directly detectedthrough optical or electron density, radioactive emissions, nonradiativeenergy transfers, etc. or indirectly detected with antibody conjugates,streptavidin-biotin conjugates, etc. Methods for detecting the labelsare well known in the art.

The dog PGP binding agent may also be an antibody or a functionallyactive antibody fragment. Antibodies are well known to those of ordinaryskill in the science of immunology. As used herein, the term “antibody”means not only intact antibody molecules but also fragments of antibodymolecules retaining dog PGP binding ability. Such fragments are alsowell known in the art and are regularly employed both in vitro and invivo. In particular, as used herein, the term “antibody” means not onlyintact immunoglobulin molecules but also the well-known active fragmentsF(ab′)₂, and Fab. F(ab′)₂, and Fab fragments which lack the Fc fragmentof intact antibody, clear more rapidly from the circulation, and mayhave less non-specific tissue binding of an intact antibody (Wahl etal., J Nucl. Med. 24:316-325 (1983)).

Monoclonal antibodies may be made by any of the methods known in the artutilizing dog PGP, or a fragment thereof, as an immunogen. Alternativelythe antibody may be a polyclonal antibody specific for dog PGP whichinhibits dog PGP activity. The preparation and use of polyclonalantibodies is also known to one of ordinary skill in the art.

Significantly, as is well known in the art, only a small portion of anantibody molecule, the paratope, is involved in the binding of theantibody to its epitope (see, in general, Clark, W. R. (1986) TheExperimental Foundations of Modern Immunology Wiley & Sons, Inc., NewYork; Roitt, I. (1991) Essential Immunology, 7th Ed., BlackwellScientific Publications, Oxford). The pFc′ and Fc regions, for example,are effectors of the complement cascade but are not involved in antigenbinding. An antibody from which the pFc′ region has been enzymaticallycleaved, or which has been produced without the pFc′ region, designatedan F(ab′)₂ fragment, retains both of the antigen binding sites of anintact antibody. Similarly, an antibody from which the Fc region hasbeen enzymatically cleaved, or which has been produced without the Fcregion, designated an Fab fragment, retains one of the antigen bindingsites of an intact antibody molecule. Proceeding further, Fab fragmentsconsist of a covalently bound antibody light chain and a portion of theantibody heavy chain denoted Fd. The Fd fragments are the majordeterminant of antibody specificity (a single Fd fragment may beassociated with up to ten different light chains without alteringantibody specificity) and Fd fragments retain epitope-binding ability inisolation.

Within the antigen-binding portion of an antibody, as is well-known inthe art, there are complementarity determining regions (CDRs), whichdirectly interact with the epitope of the antigen, and framework regions(FRs), which maintain the tertiary structure of the paratope (see, ingeneral, Clark, 1986; Roitt, 1991). In both the heavy chain Fd fragmentand the light chain of IgG immunoglobulins, there are four frameworkregions (FR1 through FR4) separated respectively by threecomplementarity determining regions (CDR1 through CDR3) The CDRs, and inparticular the CDR3 regions, and more particularly the heavy chain CDR3,are largely responsible for antibody specificity.

In general, intact antibodies are said to contain “Fc” and “Fab”regions. The Fc regions are involved in complement activation and arenot involved in antigen binding. An antibody from which the Fc′ regionhas been enzymatically cleaved, or which has been produced without theFc′ region, designated an “F(ab′)₂” fragment, retains both of theantigen binding sites of the intact antibody. Similarly, an antibodyfrom which the Fc region has been enzymatically cleaved, or which hasbeen produced without the Fc region, designated an “Fab′” fragment,retains one of the antigen binding sites of the intact antibody. Fab′fragments consist of a covalently bound antibody light chain and aportion of the antibody heavy chain, denoted “Fd.” The Fd fragments arethe major determinants of antibody specificity (a single Fd fragment maybe associated with up to ten different light chains without alteringantibody specificity). Isolated Fd fragments retain the ability tospecifically bind to antigen epitopes.

The sequences of the antigen-binding Fab′ portion of the anti-dog PGPmonoclonal antibodies identified as being useful according to theinvention in the assays provided above, as well as the relevant FR andCDR regions, can be determined using amino acid sequencing methods thatare routine in the art. It is well established that non-CDR regions of amammalian antibody may be replaced with corresponding regions ofnon-specific or hetero-specific antibodies while retaining the epitopespecificity of the original antibody. This technique is useful for thedevelopment and use of “humanized” antibodies in which non-human CDRsare covalently joined to human FR and/or Fc/pFc′ regions to produce afunctional antibody. Techniques to humanize antibodies are particularlyuseful when non-human animal (e.g., murine) antibodies which inhibit dogPGP activity are identified. These non-human animal antibodies can behumanized for use in the treatment of a human subject in the methodsaccording to the invention. Examples of methods for humanizing a murineantibody are provided in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,816,567, 5,225,539, 5,585,089,5,693,762 and 5,859,205. Other antibodies, including fragments of intactantibodies with antigen-binding ability, are often referred to as“chimeric” antibodies.

Thus, as will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art, thepresent invention also provides for F(ab′)₂, and Fab fragments of ananti-dog PGP monoclonal antibody; chimeric antibodies in which the Fcand/or FR and/or CDR1 and/or CDR2 and/or light chain CDR3 regions of ananti-dog PGP antibody have been replaced by homologous human ornon-human sequences; chimeric F(ab′)₂ fragment antibodies in which theFR and/or CDR1 and/or CDR2 and/or light chain CDR3 regions of ananti-dog PGP antibody have been replaced by homologous human ornon-human sequences; and chimeric Fab fragment antibodies in which theFR and/or CDR1 and/or CDR2 and/or light chain CDR3 regions have beenreplaced by homologous human or non-human sequences.

According to the invention dog PGP inhibitors also include “dominantnegative” polypeptides derived from SEQ ID NOs:2. A dominant negativepolypeptide is an inactive variant of a polypeptide, which, byinteracting with the cellular machinery, displaces an active polypeptidefrom its interaction with the cellular machinery or competes with theactive polypeptide, thereby reducing the effect of the activepolypeptide. For example, a dominant negative receptor which binds aligand but does not transmit a signal in response to binding of theligand can reduce the biological effect of expression of the ligand.

The end result of the expression of a dominant negative dog PGPpolypeptide of the invention in a cell is a reduction in PGP activitysuch as molecular transport. One of ordinary skill in the art can assessthe potential for a dominant negative variant of a dog PGP polypeptide,and using standard mutagenesis techniques to create one or more dominantnegative variant polypeptides. For example, given the teachingscontained herein of a dog PGP polypeptide, one of ordinary skill in theart can modify the sequence of the dog PGP polypeptide by site-specificmutagenesis, scanning mutagenesis, partial gene deletion or truncation,and the like. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,580,723 and Sambrook et al.,Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, Cold SpringHarbor Laboratory Press, 1989. The skilled artisan then can test thepopulation of mutagenized polypeptides for diminution in dog PGPactivity and/or for retention of such an activity. Other similar methodsfor creating and testing dominant negative variants of a dog PGPpolypeptide will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.

Each of the compositions of the invention is useful for a variety oftherapeutic and non-therapeutic purposes. For example, the dog PGPnucleic acids of the invention are useful as oligonucleotide probes.Such oligonucleotide probes can be used herein to identify genomic orcDNA library clones possessing an identical or substantially similarnucleic acid sequence. A suitable oligonucleotide or set ofoligonucleotides, which is capable of hybridizing under stringenthybridization conditions to the desired sequence, a variant or fragmentthereof, or an anti-sense complement of such an oligonucleotide or setof oligonucleotides, can be synthesized by means well known in the art(see, for example, Synthesis and Application of DNA and RNA, S. A.Narang, ed., 1987, Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.) and employed as aprobe to identify and isolate the desired sequence, variant or fragmentthereof by techniques known in the art. Techniques of nucleic acidhybridization and clone identification are disclosed by Sambrook, etal., Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual, 2d ed., Cold Spring HarborLaboratory Press, Plainview, N.Y. (1989). To facilitate the detection ofa desired nucleic acid sequence, or variant or fragment thereof, whetherfor cloning purposes or for the mere detection of the presence of thesequence, the above-described probes may be labeled with a detectablegroup. Such a detectable group may be any material having a detectablephysical or chemical property. Such materials have been well-developedin the field of nucleic acid hybridization and, in general, many labelsuseful in such methods can be applied to the present invention.Particularly useful are radioactive labels. Any radioactive label may beemployed which provides for an adequate signal and has a sufficienthalf-life. If single stranded, the oligonucleotide may be radioactivelylabeled using kinase reactions. Alternatively, oligonucleotides are alsouseful as nucleic acid hybridization probes when labeled with anon-radioactive marker such as biotin, an enzyme or a fluorescent group.See, for example, Leary, J. J., et al., Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. (USA)80:4045 (1983); Renz, M. et al., Nucl. Acids Res. 12:3435 (1984); andRenz, M., EMBO J. 6:817 (1983).

Additionally, complements of the dog PGP nucleic acids can be useful asantisense oligonucleotides, e.g., by delivering the antisenseoligonucleotide to an animal to induce a dog PGP “knockout” phenotype.The administration of antisense RNA probes to block gene expression isdiscussed in Lichtenstein, C., Nature 333:801-802 (1988).

Alternatively, the dog PGP nucleic acid of the invention can be used toprepare a non-human transgenic animal. A “transgenic animal” is ananimal having cells that contain DNA which has been artificiallyinserted into a cell, which DNA becomes part of the genome of the animalwhich develops from that cell. Preferred transgenic animals areprimates, mice, rats, cows, pigs, horses, goats, sheep, dogs and cats.Animals suitable for transgenic experiments can be obtained fromstandard commercial sources such as Charles River (Wilmington, Mass.),Taconic (Germantown, N.Y.), Harlan Sprague Dawley (Indianapolis, Ind.),etc. Transgenic animals having a particular property associated with aparticular disease can be used to study the affects of a variety ofdrugs and treatment methods on the disease, and thus serve as geneticmodels for the study of a number of human diseases. The invention,therefore, contemplates the use of dog PGP knockout and transgenicanimals as models for the study of disorders involving tranport ofmolecules across cell membranes. A variety of methods known to one ofordinary skill in the art are available for the production of transgenicanimals associated with this invention.

Inactivation or replacement of the endogenous PGP/MDR1 gene can beachieved by a homologous recombination system using embryonic stemcells. The resultant transgenic non-human mammals having a PGP⁻ knockoutphenotype may be made transgenic for the dog PGP and used as a model forscreening compounds as modulators (agonists or antagonists/inhibitors)of the dog PGP. In this manner, such therapeutic drugs can beidentified.

Additionally, a normal or mutant version of dog PGP can be inserted intothe germ line to produce transgenic animals which constitutively orinducibly express the normal or mutant form of dog PGP. These animalsare useful in studies to define the role and function of dog PGP incells.

The compositions of the invention are also useful for therapeuticpurposes. Accordingly the invention encompasses a method for inhibitingdog PGP activity in a mammalian cell. The invention further providesmethods for reducing or increasing dog PGP activity in a cell. In oneembodiment, the method involves contacting the mammalian cell with anamount of a dog PGP nucleic acid or polypeptide effective to inhibitmolecular transport out of the mammalian cell. Such methods are usefulin vitro for the purpose of, for example, elucidating the mechanismsinvolved in drug resistance and reduced drug bioavailability.

The invention also encompasses a method for increasing PGP expression ina cell or subject. The amount of dog PGP can be increased in such cellor subject by contacting the cell with, or administering to the subject,a PGP nucleic acid or a PGP polypeptide of the invention to the subjectin an amount effective to increase transmembrane transport in the cellor the subject. An increase in PGP activity can be measured by theassays described herein, e.g., assays of transmembrane transport.

The preparations of the invention are administered in effective amounts.An effective amount is that amount of a pharmaceutical preparation thatalone, or together with further doses, produces the desired response.Such amounts will depend, of course, on the particular condition beingtreated, the severity of the condition, the individual patientparameters including age, physical condition, size and weight, theduration of the treatment, the nature of concurrent therapy (if any),the specific route of administration and like factors within theknowledge and expertise of the health practitioner. It is preferredgenerally that a maximum dose be used, that is, the highest safe doseaccording to sound medical judgment. It will be understood by those ofordinary skill in the art, however, that a patient may insist upon alower dose or tolerable dose for medical reasons, psychological reasonsor for virtually any other reasons.

Generally, doses of active compounds would be from about 0.01 mg/kg perday to 1000 mg/kg per day. It is expected that doses ranging from 50-500mg/kg will be suitable and in one or several administrations per day.Lower doses will result from other forms of administration, such asintravenous administration. In the event that a response in a subject isinsufficient at the initial doses applied, higher doses (or effectivelyhigher doses by a different, more localized delivery route) may beemployed to the extent that patient tolerance permits. Multiple dosesper day are contemplated to achieve appropriate systemic levels ofcompound, although fewer doses typically will be given when compoundsare prepared as slow release or sustained release medications.

When administered, the pharmaceutical preparations of the invention areapplied in pharmaceutically-acceptable amounts and inpharmaceutically-acceptably compositions. Such preparations mayroutinely contain salts, buffering agents, preservatives, compatiblecarriers, and optionally other therapeutic agents. When used inmedicine, the salts should be pharmaceutically acceptable, butnon-pharmaceutically acceptable salts may conveniently be used toprepare pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof and are not excludedfrom the scope of the invention. Such pharmacologically andpharmaceutically-acceptable salts include, but are not limited to, thoseprepared from the following acids: hydrochloric, hydrobromic, sulfuric,nitric, phosphoric, maleic, acetic, salicylic, citric, formic, malonic,succinic, and the like. Also, pharmaceutically-acceptable salts can beprepared as alkaline metal or alkaline earth salts, such as sodium,potassium or calcium salts.

The dog PGP inhibitors or dog PGP nucleic acids and polypeptides usefulaccording to the invention may be combined, optionally, with apharmaceutically-acceptable carrier. The term“pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier” as used herein means one or morecompatible solid or liquid fillers, diluents or encapsulating substanceswhich are suitable for administration into a human. The term “carrier”denotes an organic or inorganic ingredient, natural or synthetic, withwhich the active ingredient is combined to facilitate the application.The components of the pharmaceutical compositions also are capable ofbeing co-mingled with the molecules of the present invention, and witheach other, in a manner such that there is no interaction which wouldsubstantially impair the desired pharmaceutical efficacy.

The pharmaceutical compositions may contain suitable buffering agents,including: acetic acid in a salt; citric acid in a salt; and phosphoricacid in a salt.

The pharmaceutical compositions also may contain, optionally, suitablepreservatives, such as: benzalkonium chloride; chlorobutanol; parabensand thimerosal.

A variety of administration routes are available. The particular modeselected will depend, of course, upon the particular compound selected,the severity of the condition being treated and the dosage required fortherapeutic efficacy. The methods of the invention, generally speaking,may be practiced using any mode of administration that is medicallyacceptable, meaning any mode that produces effective levels of theactive compounds without causing clinically unacceptable adverseeffects. Such modes of administration include oral, rectal, topical,nasal, intradermal, or parenteral routes. The term “parenteral” includessubcutaneous, intravenous, intrathecal, intramuscular, or infusion.Intravenous or intramuscular routes are not particularly suitable forlong-term therapy and prophylaxis.

The pharmaceutical compositions may conveniently be presented in unitdosage form and may be prepared by any of the methods well-known in theart of pharmacy. All methods include the step of bringing the activeagent into association with a carrier which constitutes one or moreaccessory ingredients. In general, the compositions are prepared byuniformly and intimately bringing the active compound into associationwith a liquid carrier, a finely divided solid carrier, or both, andthen, if necessary, shaping the product.

Compositions suitable for oral administration may be presented asdiscrete units, such as capsules, tablets, lozenges, each containing apredetermined amount of the active compound. Other compositions includesuspensions in aqueous liquids or non-aqueous liquids such as a syrup,elixir or an emulsion.

Compositions suitable for parenteral administration convenientlycomprise a sterile aqueous preparation of the dog PGP inhibitor or dogPGP nucleic acids and polypeptides, which is preferably isotonic withthe blood of the recipient This aqueous preparation may be formulatedaccording to known methods using suitable dispersing or wetting agentsand suspending agents. The sterile injectable preparation also may be asterile injectable solution or suspension in a non-toxicparenterally-acceptable diluent or solvent, for example, as a solutionin 1,3-butane diol. Among the acceptable vehicles and solvents that maybe employed are water, Ringer's solution, and isotonic sodium chloridesolution. In addition, sterile, fixed oils are conventionally employedas a solvent or suspending medium. For this purpose any bland fixed oilmay be employed including synthetic mono-or di-glycerides. In addition,fatty acids such as oleic acid may be used in the preparation ofinjectables. Carrier formulation suitable for oral, subcutaneous,intravenous, intrathecal, intramuscular, etc. administrations can befound in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mack Publishing Co.,Easton, Pa.

Other delivery systems can include time-release, delayed release orsustained release delivery systems such as the biological/chemicalvectors is discussed above. Such systems can avoid repeatedadministrations of the active compound, increasing convenience to thesubject and the physician. Many types of release delivery systems areavailable and known to those of ordinary skill in the art Use of along-term sustained release implant may be desirable. Long-term release,are used herein, means that the implant is constructed and arranged todelivery therapeutic levels of the active ingredient for at least 30days, and preferably 60 days. Long-term sustained release implants arewell-known to those of ordinary skill in the art and include some of therelease systems described above.

The invention will be more fully understood by reference to thefollowing examples. These examples, however, are merely intended toillustrate the embodiments of the invention and are not to be construedto limit the scope of the invention.

EXAMPLES Example 1 Isolation of Dog P-glycoprotein

cDNA libraries were prepared using dog (Canis familiaris) mRNA accordingto standard procedures. The libraries were screened for P-glycoproteinclones using a human P-glycoprotein DNA probe. Clones were isolated,purified and sequenced in accordance with standard procedures, asdescribed below.

Liver and lung tissue was excised from Beagle dog tissue samples andflash frozen in liquid nitrogen.

A 890bp fragment of dog PGP1 was PCRed out of a lambda gt11 vector cDNAlibrary custom made by Stratagene. PCR was done using reagents fromClontech. Primers were custom designed, one specific for sequencehomologous to human PGP1, the other homologous to dog PGP2.

Primer name sequence size SEQ NO: homology Dp1216F 5′-gaa ctg tga ttgcgt ttg gag gac-3′ 24 mer 9 human PGP1 Dp2133R 5′-ttc agg gcc gcc tgtacc tct g-3′ 22 mer 10 dog PGP2

PCR was performed with a Perkin Elmer 9700 thermocycler. PCR was done at94° C. for 2 minutes, followed by 40 cycles of 94° C. for 30 seconds,40° C. for 20 seconds and 72° C. for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and thenincubated at 72° C. for 3 minutes. The PCR product was run on a 1%agarose gel, and stained with EtBr. The DNA band at 917 bp was cut out,and purified using the QIAquick Gel Extraction kit from Qiagen Inc.

The DNA was then ligated to the vector pCR2.1 using the Original TACloning kit from Invitrogen. INValphaF′ cells were transformed with theligation retain, a colony was selected, grown up in 100 mL of L brothwith ampicillin. DNA purification was done using the Plasmid Midipurification kit from Qiagen. The insert was sequenced using an ABI 377sequencer. This sequence corresponds to an 890 bp fragment of dog PGP,from base 816 to base 1706 in the open reading frame.

Five other fragments were isolated, cloned and sequenced using the samemethod as stated above, with any differences in procedure stated below.

RNA extraction from dog lung tissue was performed using Nucliobond RNAMaxi Prep. purification kit from Clontech. cDNA was synthesized from theRNA preparation using Superscript Preamplification System for FirstStrand cDNA Synthesis from Life Technologies.

Fragment 1: cDNA source - dog lung cDNA library prep. Primer namesequence size SEQ NO: homology Dm1766F 5′-ccc cac aga tgg cat ggt ctgt-3′ 22 mer 11 dog PGP1 Dp2769R 5′-cgc ttg gtg agg atc tct cca gc-3′ 23mer 12 human PGP1

This corresponds to a 981 bp fragment of dog PGP from base 1364 to base2345 in the open reading frame.

Fragment 2: cDNA source dog - lung cDNA library prep. Primer namesequence size SEQ NO: homology Dm2037F 5′-aga aac aga gaa tcg cca ttgctc-3′ 24 mer 13 dog PGP1 Dp3793R 5′-gct gca gtc aaa cag gat ggg ct-3′23 mer 14 human PGP1

This corresponds to a 1728 bp fragment of dog PGP from base 1635 to base3362 in the open reading frame.

Fragment 3: cDNA source dog - lung cDNA prep Primer name sequence sizeSEQ NO: homology Dm3411F 5′-agt tca ttt gct cct gac tat gcc-3′ 24 mer 15dog PGP1 Dp4214R 5′-gat gcc ttt ctg ggc cag cag c-3′ 22 mer 16 humanPGP1

This corresponds to a 779 bp fragment of dog PGP from base 3004 to base3783 in the open reading frame.

An RNA preparation from dog liver tissue was performed using the samemethod as used previously. cDNA was made from it using the SMART RACEcDNA Amplification Kit from Clontech using SMART II oligonucleotide. PCRconditions were changed to 94° C. for 5 minutes, followed by 5 cycles of94° C. for 30 seconds and 72° C. for 2 minutes. Five cycles of 94° C.for 30 seconds, 70° C. for 45 seconds and 72° C. for 2 minutes wereperformed next. The final 30 cycles were at 94° C. for 30 seconds, 68°C. for 45 seconds and 72° C. for 2 minutes. The PCR was concluded with72° C. for 7 minutes.

Fragment 4: cDNA source - dog liver cDNA (SMART RACE) prep. Primer namesequence size SEQ NO: homology Dm3612FL 5′-gag gtg aag aag ggc cag acgctg gcc ctc-3′ 30 mer 17 dog PGP1 RACE 5′-cta ata cga ctc act ata gggcaa gca gtg gta aca acg cag agt 3′ 18 vector

This corresponds to a 3′ end fragment of dog PGP from base 3212 to base4264 in the open reading frame.

An RNA preparation from dog liver tissue was performed using the samemethod as used previously. cDNA was made from it using the SMART RACEcDNA Amplification Kit from Clontech using the gene specific PrimerDM1680RL 5′-cgc agc cac tgt tcc caa cca gcg cca ct-3′, 29 mer, SEQ IDNO:19, dog PGP1.

Fragment 5: cDNA source - dog liver cDNA (SMART RACE with internalprimer) prep. Primer name sequence size SEQ NO: homology Dp409F 5′-ggagcg cga ggt cgg gat gga tc-3′ 23 mer 20 human PGP1 Dm1355RL 5′-gga gaggac caa gga ggt ccc ata cca gaa a-3′ 31 mer 21 dog PGP1

This corresponds to an ATG fragment of dog PGP from base −15 to base 945in the open reading frame.

Assembly of Clones

1 Kb fragment (890 bp) and 981 bp fragment

DNA preps were made of each fragment. Both fragments were cut with NcoIrestriction enzyme. The 1 Kb fragment was also cut with EcoRI. The 981bp fragment was also cut with BamHI. Each fragment was purified, ligatedtogether, then the ends were cut, the cut molecule was gel purified andligated into pUC19 cut with EcoRI and BamHI.

1 Kb fragment (890 bp)/981 bp fragment and 1728 bp fragment

These fragments were assembled as above except that both fragments werecut with BamHI and the 1728 bp fragment was also cut with XbaI.

1 Kb fragment (890 bp)/981 bp fragment/1728 bp fragment and ATG fragment3′end and 779 bp fragment

1 Kb fragment (890 bp)/981 bp fragment/1728 bp fragment ATG fragment and3′end/779bp fragment

All of these fragments were assembled as above except that, in somecases, the fragments were cut with different restriction enzymesaccording to their nucleotide sequences.

The nucleotide sequence of a dog P-glycoprotein is presented as SEQ IDNO:1. The coding sequence consists of nucleotides 17-3859, producing apolypeptide of 1281 amino acids (SEQ ID NO:2).

Example 2 Activity of Dog P-glycoprotein

Materials and Methods

Dog PGP cDNA (SEQ ID NO:1) is introduced into a clonal population ofLLC-PK1 cells in a vector that confers resistance to hygromycin B.LLC-PK1 cells are obtained from the American Type Culture Collectionsand are propagated in Medium 199 supplemented to 7% with fetal bovineserum. LLC-PK1 cells are recloned prior to transfection in order toassure homogeneity of the cell population. Briefly, dog PGP cDNA isincorporated into the p222CMV vector. This vector is derived from thep220.2 episomal vector system based on the OriP sequences for EpsteinBarr virus and the EBNA-1 gene product (Sugden et al., Mol. Cell Biol.5:410-413, 1985; Yates et al., Nature (Lond.) 313: 812-815, 1985). ThePGP cDNA is under the control of the cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediateearly promoter. The vector confers resistance to hygromycin B. Cells (in0.4 mL) and DNA (10 to 20 μg) were transfected by electroporation usinga BTX Electro cell manipulator model 600 using a 2 mm gap cell, 100V,2500 μF capacitance and 72 ohm resistance. After electroporation, thecells are plated in multiwell plates (48 well, Corning Costar) at 10% ofconfluence. One to two days after transfection hygromycin B isintroduced at a final concentration of 400 to 600 μg/ml. Cells are refedevery 2 to 4 days and are propagated in 400 to 600 μg/ml hygromycin Bfor 6 to 8 days at which point the bulk of the wild type cells aredetached. The hygromycin B is reduced to 100 μg/ml and maintained inthis concentration of hygromycin B. After 14 to 18 days the wells areinspected and wells containing single colonies are trypsinized andscaled up to bulk cultures. Expression of PGP is measured by thepolarization of vinblastine (0.1 uM) transport in Transwells™.

LLC-PK1 cell based transport studies are conducted in 24 wellTranswells™ (Corning Costar, Catalog number 3415). Transwells™ areprepared by the addition of 0.6 mL media to the basolateral space and0.1 mL media to the apical space. Cells are seeded at 4×10⁴ cells perinsert (typically in 0.05 mL to 0.15 mL), refed with fresh media every 2to 4 days and used for transport studies 4 to 8 days post seeding.Transport assays are conducted in Hank's balanced saline (HBSS) bufferedwith 10 mM HEPES (pH 7 to 7.2). Cell monolayers are rinsed with HBSSprior to use in transport assays. Transport is measured under sinkconditions in both the apical to basolateral (A to B) and basolateral toapical (B to A) directions. At least duplicate monolayers are used perdetermination. At the desired time points, samples are withdrawn fromthe receiver chamber (apical or basolateral chambers). Quantitation ofthe amount of compound transported is by liquid scintillation counting(vinblastine) or HPLC with UV or mass spectrometric detection.

Dog PGP cDNA is expressed in insect cells using a baculovirus vector.Membranes are prepared according to the method of (Sarkadi et al., JBiol. Chem. 267: 4854-4858, 1992) and stored at −80° C. until use.ATPase assays are conducted in 96 well microtiter plates. The assays areconducted using a modification of the methods of (Sarkadi et al., 1992and Druekes et al., Anal. Biochem. 230: 173-177, 1995).

A detailed method for each well of a 96 well plate is contained below: A0.06 ml reaction mixture containing 40 μg membranes, 20 μM Verapamil(positive control) or test drug, and 3-5 mM MgATP, in buffer containing50 mM Tris-MES, 2 mM EGTA, 50 mM KCl, 2 mM dithiothreitol, and 5 mMsodium azide, is incubated at 37° C. for 20 min. An identical reactionmixture containing 100 μM sodium orthovanadate is assayed in parallel.Orthovanadate inhibits PGP by trapping MgADP in the nucleotide bindingsite. Thus, ATPase activity measured in the presence of orthovanadaterepresents non-PGP ATPase activity and can be subtracted from theactivity generated without orthovanadate to yield vanadate-sensitiveATPase activity. The reaction is stopped by the addition of 30 μl of 10%SDS+Antifoam A. Two additional reaction mixtures (+and−orthovanadate)but without MgATP, are also prepared and incubated with the others, andthen supplemented with SDS and MgATP, to represent time=0 min ofreaction. The incubations are followed with addition of 200 μl of 35 mMammonium molybdate in 15 mM zinc acetate:10% ascorbic acid (1:4) andincubated for an additional 20 min at 37° C. The liberation of inorganicphosphate is detected by its absorbance at 800 nm and quantitated bycomparing the absorbance to a phosphate standard curve.

Ligand binding assays and assays for measuring inhibition of fluorescentdye uptake are preformed as described by Sharom et al. (Biochem.Pharmacol. 58:571-586, 1999).

I. Stable PGP Expression in LLC-PK1 Cells.

Functional expression of dog PGP is measured by the polarization oftransport of vinblastine. Control cells typically demonstrate a B to A/Ato B ratio of between 1 and 3. PGP transfected cells demonstrate a muchhigher ratio. The expression of cDNA-derived dog is stable.

II Activation of ATPase Activity in PGP Membranes.

The stimulation of ATPase assay provides a rapid measure of theconcentration dependence of any interaction of a drug with PGP. Theliberated inorganic phosphate is measured by a simple spectrophotometricassay performed in a microtiter plate format. The testing of multipledrug concentrations allows estimation of the affinity of the drug forPGP and whether saturation of the response was observed.

III. Drug Transport Across Cell Monolayers.

The ATPase assay does not directly measure drug transport. In order toexamine the concordance between activation of ATPase and actualtransport, the rates of transport of the drugs are measured in controlLLC-PK1 and dog PGP cell monolayers. For each drug concentration, fourmeasurements are made:

A: A to B Control cells B: B to A Control cells C: A to B PGP cells D: Bto A PGP cells

The polarization of transport is calculated in control cells (B/A) andPGP cells (D/C). The intrinsic activity (IA) of PGP is calculated as thesum of the amount PGP facilitated B to A transport in PGP cells relativeto control cells (D minus B) and the amount that PGP impeded A to Btransport in PGP cells relative to control cells (A minus C). Theintrinsic clearance of PGP is calculated from a plot of theconcentration dependence data by either calculating the slope of theline under non-saturating conditions or from the calculated apparent Kmand Vmax values when saturation is observed. Intrinsic clearance isexpressed as mL/m²/min.

The ATPase data provides useful concentration response data. Forexample, the apparent Km values for some compounds are in good agreementbetween the ATPase and transport systems. However, other drugs activateATPase activity but transport by PGP is not detectable. At the least,ATPase assay can identify a concentration range below which the responseto transport by PGP was linear with respect to drug concentration. Thisshould allow simplification of the experimental design for measuring theintrinsic clearance of PGP, an important consideration if large numbersof compounds are to be tested.

IV Bioavailability

Bioavailability studies are performed by performing one or more of theassays described above with two or more different PGP types. Thedifferent PGP types can by different species (e.g., dog and human,cynomologous monkey and human, dog and cynomologous monkey, etc.) or canbe different alleles of the same species. The results of these assaysare compared to determine or estimate the bioavailability of a drug inindividuals of the different species or in individuals that expressdifferent PGP alleles. The results of one determination also may becompared to a previously determined value of, e.g., ATPase or transport,as an historical control.

Protocols and Procedures

Isolation of RNA

Frozen beagle liver tissue was ground up using a mortar and pestle.Pulverized tissue (300 mg) was transferred to a dounce homogenizer.TRIsol Reagent (3 mL; Cat. #15596 from Life Technologies) was added andthe tissue was homogenized then incubated for 15 minutes at roomtemperature. Aliquots (1 mL) of the solution were transferred to threemicrofuge tubes and 200 μL of chloroform were added to each tube. Eachtube was vortexed at a high setting for 15 seconds, then incubated atroom temperature for 3 minutes before being centrifuged at 10 000 g for15 minutes at 4° C. The upper “aqueous” phase was transferred to a newmicrofuge tube while the remaining lower and inter phases werediscarded. 500 μL of Isopropanol was added to each of the new tubes andmixed by inverting the tube several times. Each tube was then incubatedat room temperature for 10 minutes before being centrifuged at 10 000 gfor 10 more minutes at 4° C. A small white pellet was observed and thesupernatant was discarded. 1 mL of 75% ethanol was added to each tube.The tubes were vortexed briefly then centrifuged at 10 000 g for 10minutes at 4° C. The supernatant was discarded and the pellet dried for5 minutes at room temperature. 50 μL of DEPC treated sterile deionizedwater was added to each tube. Each pellet was resuspended and thecontents of each tube were pooled.

Optical density of the resuspended pellet was analyzed using a HitachiU3010 spectrophotometer to determine the quantity of RNA that wasisolated. The RNA was then diluted using DEPC treated sterile deionizedwater to a concentration of 0.55 μg/μL. 2 mL of this RNA was splitevenly into 2 microfuge tubes. Next, 100 μL of 5 M NaCl was added toeach tube. Both tubes were heated to 65° C. for 15 minutes, then put onice for 5 minutes. 500 μL of Oligo (dT) Cellulose Suspension from theMessageMaker mRNA Isolation System (Cat. # 10551-018 from LifeTechnologies) were added to both tubes. The tubes were then incubated at37° C. for 10 minutes. The contents of the tubes were transferred to theFilter Syringe provided with the MessageMaker mRNA Isolation System.After expelling the liquid contents, the pellet in the syringe waswashed using Wash Buffer 1 and Wash Buffer 2 according to themanufacturer's instructions. The RNA pellet in the syringe wasresuspended in 1 mL of DEPC treated sterile deionized water (65° C),followed by the addition of 2.5 μL of 50 μg/mL glycogen and 100 μL of7.5M ammonium acetate and mixing by inversion. The contents of the tubewere then transferred to a two microfuge tubes and 1 mL of ethanol wasadded to each tube. The contents of both tubes were mixed by inversion,followed by incubation at −20° C. overnight.

The tubes were centrifuged at 10 000 g for 30 minutes at 4° C. Thesupernatant was discarded and 200 μL of 75% ethanol was added to eachtube. The tubes were vortexed for 10 seconds followed by centrifugationat 10 000 g for 15 minutes at 4° C. The supernatant was discarded andall remaining liquid was carefully pipetted off. The pellet wasresuspended in 10 μL of DEPC treated sterile deionized water.

Preparation of cDNA

cDNA was prepared using the Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit (Cat. #K1802-1 from Clontech Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.) as follows.Four microliters of the resuspended mRNA were transferred to a newmicrofuge tube, and 1 μL of one of the following primers at 10 μMconcentration was added: Dm1680RL cgc age cac tgt tcc caa cca gcg cca ct(SEQ ID NO:19; custom designed, synthesized by Operon Technologies,Inc.) or cDNA Synthesis Primer, nnt ttt ttt ttt ttt ttt ttt ttt ttt tttttc gcc ggc gac tta aga tct t (SEQ ID NO:28), from the Marathon cDNAAmplification Kit. Tubes were incubated at 70° C. for 2 minutes thenplaced on ice for 5 minutes. 2 μL of 5×First-Strand Buffer, 1 μL of 10mM dNTP Mix and 1 μL of 20 U/μL AMV Reverse Transcriptase were added toeach tube and gently mixed. The tubes were incubated at 42° C. for 1hour, then placed on ice. 2 μL of each single stranded cDNA were used astemplate in PCR (see below, “PCR conditions”). 48.4 μL of DEPC treateddeionized water, 16 μL of 5×Second-Strand Buffer, 1.6 μL of 10 mM dNTPMix and 4 μL of 20×Second-Strand Enzyme Cocktail were added to theremaining cDNA sample. The tube was incubated at 16° C. for 1.5 hours. 2uL of 5U/uL T4 DNA Polymerase was added to the tube, which was thenincubated at 16° C. for an additional 45 minutes. 20×EDTA/Glycogen Mix(4 μL) was added followed by 430 μL of Buffer PN from the QIAquickNucleotide Removal Kit (Cat. #28304 from QIAGEN Inc., Valencia, Calif.).The sample was then loaded into a QIAquick Spin Column and centrifugedat 10 000 g for 1 minute. The collection tube was emptied and 750 μL ofPE Buffer (QIAGEN) were added to the QIAquick Spin Column which wasagain centrifuged at 10 000 g for 1 minute. The collection tube was onceagain emptied and the QIAquick Spin Column was centrifuged at 10 000 gfor 1 minute to dry the column membrane. 50 μL of sterile deionizedwater heated to 50° C. was added to the QIAquick Spin Column andincubated at room temperature for 1 minute before being centrifuged at10 000 g for 1 minute into a clean microfuge tube.

To precipitate nucleic acid, 10.8 μL 7.5M ammonium acetate and 144 μLethanol were added to the tube before it was centrifuged at 10 000 g for20 minutes. The supernatant was removed, then 300 μL of 75% ethanol wasadded. The tube was vortexed and centrifuged at 10 000 g for 20 minutes.The supernatant was removed and the sample was resuspended in 12 μL ofsterile deionized water. 5 μL of this cDNA were placed in a cleanmicrofuge tube. 2 μL of 10 μM Marathon cDNA Adapter, 2 μL 5×DNA LigationBuffer and 1 μL of 400U/μL T4 DNA Ligase, from the Marathon cDNAAmplification Kit, were added to the cDNA and mixed gently. This mixturewas incubated over night at 16° C. The ligase was heat inactivated at70° C. for 5 minutes. PCR was done using this sample as a template.

PCR Conditions

PCR was performed using reagents supplied with the Clontech Advantage 2kit (Clontech, palo Alto, Calif.). Briefly, 2 μL of cDNA was placed in a200 μL MicroAmp reaction tube (Cat. # N801-0540, PE Biosystems), then 34μL of sterile deionized water, 5 μL of 10×Clontech Advantage 2Polymerase Mix (Cat. #4700-1 Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), 3 μL of 10 mMAdvantage UltraPure PCR Deoxynucleotide Mix (Cat. #8430-1 ClontechLaboratories, Inc.) and 2 μL each of a forward and reverse primer at 10mM concentration were added. Primers were either Marathon cDNA AdapterPrimer 1, cca tcc taa tac gac tca ctg tag ggc (SEQ ID NO:29), from theMarathon cDNA Amplification Kit or various custom gene specific primersmade by Operon Technologies Inc. Custom primers include (all listed as5′-3′): Dm409FL: gga gcg cga ggt cgg gat gga tc (SEQ ID NO:20),Dm1455RL: gca aat gct tca atg ctt ggg gat gcc tgt cca a (SEQ ID NO:30),Dm2037F: aga aac aga gaa tcg cca ttg ctc (SEQ ID NO:13), Dm3920RL: gagctg ggt tcc ttt gtc tcc tac tct ggt gtt (SEQ ID NO:31), Dp1216F: gaa ctgtga ttg cgt ttg gag gac (SEQ ID NO:9), and Dp2587R: gca aat gct ggt tgcagg cct cc (SEQ ID NO:32).

Thermocycling was done using a Perkin Elmer 9700 at 94° C. for 30seconds followed by 2 cycles of 94° C. for 5 seconds and 72° C. for 4minutes, followed by 16 cycles of 94° C. for 5 seconds and 68° C. for 4minutes.

Four fragments were acquired by PCR for each Genotype. Fragment 1 wasgenerated using primers Marathon cDNA Adapter Primer 1 and Dm1455RL.Fragment 2 was generated using primers Dp1216F and Dp2587R. Fragment 3was generated using primers Dm2037F and Dm3920RL. Fragment 4 wasgenerated using primers Dp3612FL and Marathon cDNA Adapter Primer 1.

Post PCR Sample Processing

Electrophoresis was performed on all PCR products using 10×Gel-loadingBuffer IV (Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, J. Sambrook, et al.,eds., Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold SpringHarbor, N.Y., 1989, page 6.12), on a 1% agarose gel in 0.5×TBE buffer(Sambrook, et al., page B-23) containing EtBr. Fragments of gelcontaining the PCR products were cut out and placed in 2 mL microfugetubes. The mass of each fragment was determined and 3 μL/mg of BufferQX1 from QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit (Cat. #28704 from QIAGEN Inc.) wasadded. Each tube was then incubated for 10 minutes at 50° C. withmixture every two minutes. 1 μL/mg of isopropanol was added to each tubeand mixed. The resulting solution was transferred to a QIAquick spincolumn from the QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit. These columns werecentrifuged for 1 minute at 10 000 g at room temperature. 750 μL ofBuffer PE from the QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit were added to each columnfollowed by centrifugation for 1 minute at 10 000 g at room temperature.Each column was centrifuged again for 1 minute at 10 000 g at roomtemperature to remove any residual buffer. 30 μL of sterile deionizedwater at 50° C. were added to each column and incubated for 1 minute atroom temperature. Each column was then placed in a microfuge tube andcentrifuged for 1 minute at 10 000 g.

Next, 6 μL of purified PCR product was transferred to a clean microfugetube and 1 ρL of 10×Ligation Buffer, 2 μL of pCR 2.1 vector and 1 uL ofT4 DNA Ligase (all from the Original TA Cloning Kit (Cat. #K2000-J10)Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) were added to the microfuge tube andmixed. The reaction was incubated over night at 16° C.

One 50 μL vial of frozen One Shot competent cells (Invitrogen) wasthawed on ice for each ligation reaction. 3.5 uL of ligation reactionmixture was added to the competent cells and gently mixed. The cellsincubated on ice for 30 minutes, followed by a 30 second “heat shock” at42° C. After cooling on ice again, 250 μL of SOC medium (Invitrogen) wasadded to each vial and the vials were put directly into a 37° C. waterbath for 1 hour. 50 μL and 200 μL aliquots of each transformationreaction were plated on Luria-Bertani Medium (Sambrook et al., page A-1)containing 1% agarose, 1 mg/mL glucose, 50 ng/mL ampicillin and 1.6ng/mL X-gal. The inoculated plates were then incubated at 37° C.overnight. White colored colonies were selected and used to inoculateseparate 100 mL cultures of L-B Medium containing 50 ng/mL ampicillinwhich were incubated at 37° C. overnight while being stirred at 100 rpm.

Plasmid DNA was prepared using QIAGEN Midi Plasmid Kit (Cat. #12143 fromQIAGEN Inc.), according to the manufacturer's instructions, as follows.Each 100 mL culture was aliquoted into two 50 mL conical vials andcentrifuged at 3 000 g for 10 minutes at 4° C. The supernatant waspoured off and 4 mL of Buffer P1 were used to resuspend the pellet inone of the two vials. This suspension was transferred to the other tubeand used to resuspend that pellet. Buffer P2 (4 mL) was added, mixed andthe suspension was incubated at room temperature for 5 minutes. BufferP3 (4 mL) was added, mixed and the suspension was incubated at 4° C. for15 minutes. The samples were centrifuged at 3 000 g for 15 minutes at 4°C. All of the supernatant was transferred to a QIAgen-tip 100 that hadbeen previously treated with 4 mL of Buffer QBT. The supernatant wasallowed to drain through the column. Buffer QC (10 mL) was added to thecolumn and allowed to drain. Another 10 mL of Buffer QC was added andallowed to drain. Finally 4 mL of Buffer QF was added to the column andallowed to drain into a clean 15 mL conical vial. 2.8 mL of isopropanolwas added and mixed with this solution. This was aliquoted intomicrofuge tubes, incubated at 4° C. for 10 minutes and centrifuged at 10000 g for 15 minutes at 4° C. The supernatant was removed, then 1 mL of70% ethanol was added to each microfuge tube. Each tube was vortexedbriefly, then centrifuged at 10 000 g for 15 minutes at 4° C. Thesupernatant was removed and 100 μL of sterile 1×TE buffer (Sambrook etal., page B-20) were added.

Restriction digests were performed on the purified DNA. Enzymes used tocut fragments out were: fragment 1, KpnI (Cat. #R0142S from New EnglandBiolabs, Inc., Beverly, Mass.) and NsiI (Cat. #R0127S from New EnglandBiolabs, Inc.); fragment 2, NsiI and HindIII (Cat. #R0104S from NewEngland Biolabs, Inc.); fragment 3, HindIII and PstI (Cat. #V0279S fromNew England Biolabs, Inc.); and fragment 4, PstI and NotI (Cat. #R0189Sfrom New England Biolabs, Inc.). All restriction digests were preformedat 37° C. in digestion buffers recommended by New England Biolabs.

Electrophoresis was performed on all restriction digest products using10×gel-loading buffer IV (Sambrook et al., page 6.12), on a 1% agarosegel in 0.5×TBE buffer (Sambrook et al., page B-23) containing EtBr.Fragments of gel containing the restriction digest products were cut outand placed in 2 mL microfuge tubes. DNA fragments were extracted fromthe gel slices using a QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit (Cat. #28704 fromQIAGEN Inc.) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The mass ofeach fragment was determined and 3 μL/mg of Buffer QX1 was added. Eachtube was then incubated for 10 minutes at 50° C. with mixture every twominutes. One volume of isopropanol was added to each tube and mixed. Theresulting solution was transferred to a QIAquick spin column andcentrifuged for 1 minute at 10 000 g at room temperature. Buffer PE (750μL) was added to each column followed by centrifugation for 1 minute at10 000 g at room temperature. Each column was centrifuged again for 1minute at 10 000 g at room temperature to remove any residual buffer. 30μL of sterile deionized water at 50° C. was added to each column andincubated for 1 minute at room temperature. Each column was then placedin a microfuge tube and centrifuged for 1 minute at 10 000 g.

Two microliters of each fragment was added to a microfuge tube as wellas 1 μL of 10×Ligation Buffer and 1 μL of T4 DNA Ligase (Cat. #M0202Sfrom New England Biolabs, Inc.). This reaction was incubated at 16° C.overnight. Restriction enzymes KpnI and NotI (1 μL each) were added tothe reaction and incubated at 37° C. for 1 hour. Electrophoresis wasperformed using 10×Gel-loading Buffer IV on a 1% agarose gel in 0.5×TBEbuffer containing EtBr. The fragment of gel containing the assembledproduct was cut out and the DNA fragment was extracted using a QIAquickGel Extraction Kit as described above.

The fragment was ligated into a vector using an Original TA Cloning Kit,as follows: 6 μL of purified DNA were transferred to a clean microfugetube and 1 uL of 10×Ligation Buffer, 2 μL of pCR 2.1 vector (previouslydigested with KpnI and NotI), and 1 μL of T4 DNA Ligase were added andmixed. The reaction was incubated over night at 16° C. The ligationreaction mixture (3.5 μL) was used to transform One Shot competent cellsas described above, 50 uL and 200 uL aliquots of the transformationreaction were plated on Luria-Bertani Medium containing 1% agarose, 1mg/mL Glucose, 50 ng/mL Ampicillin and 1.6 ng/mL X-gal and grown asdescribed above. White colored colonies were selected and grown asdescribed above. Plasmid DNA was isolated and purified using a QIAGENMidi Plasmid Kit as described above. DNA was resuspended in 100 μL ofsterile 1×TE buffer. This DNA was then sequenced using ABI 100 DNAsequencer (from ABI) by Tufts University Core Facility.

Identification of Four Genotypes of Dog P-glycoprotein

The dog P-glycoprotein identified in Example 1 is now termed genotype C.Sequencing of the DNA isolated from beagle liver as described in thisexample permitted the identification of three additional allelicvariants of dog P-glycoprotein, termed genotypes A, B and D. the allelicdifferences in DNA sequence are set forth in Table 1 below.

TABLE 1 Nucleotide and Amino Acid Differences Between Dog P-glycoproteinGenotypes (Allelic Variants) SEQ ID NO: Nucleotide position Amino acidposition DNA Protein Genotype 91 607 1001 3458 25 197 329 1148 22 23 A TA T A N Q S M 24 25 B A A T A K Q S M 1 2 C T C T A N H S M 26 27 D A AA G K Q T V

Genotype A has a different nucleotide at base number 607 relative to SEQID NO:2. This is a base change from C to A in the DNA sequence whichcauses an amino acid change from Histidine to Glutamine at amino acid197. Genotype B has different nucleotides at base number 91 and 607relative to SEQ ID NO:2. The base change at position 91 is from T to Aand causes an amino acid change from Asparagine to Lysine at amino acid25. Base change at position 607 is identical to that in Genotype A.Genotype D has different nucleotides at base number 91, 607, 1001 and3458 relative to SEQ ID NO:2. Base changes at position 91 and 607 areidentical to that in Genotype B. The base change at position 1001 isfrom T to A and causes an amino acid change from Serine to Threonine atamino acid 329. The base change at position 3458 is from A to G andcauses an amino acid change from Methionine to Valine at amino acid1148.

A previously identified dog P-glycoprotein (SEQ ID NOs:3 and 4; GenBankAccession number AF045016), has 13 nucleotide differences from thegenotype C dog P-glycoprotein nucleotide sequence (SEQ ID NO:1). Thereis a 3 base deletion at base 89 to base 91 (relative to SEQ ID NO:1)leaving out AAT which causes a deletion of amino acid 25 Asparagine.There is a base change from A to G at position 590 which causes an aminoacid change from Isoleucine to Valine at amino acid 192. There is a basechange from C to A at position 607 which causing an amino acid changefrom Histidine to Glutamine at amino acid 197. There is a base changefrom G to C at position 651 which causes an amino acid change fromArginine to Proline at amino acid 212. There is a base change from G toA at position 878 which causes an amino acid change from Glycine toArginine at amino acid 288. There is, a base change from T to A atposition 1001 which causes an amino acid change from Serine to Threonineat amino acid 329. There is a base change from A to G at position 1012which does not cause an amino acid change. This is a silent pointmutation at Glutamine, amino acid 332. There is a base change from A toG at position 1611 which causes an amino acid change from Glutamine toArginine at amino acid 532. There is a base change from A to T atposition 2098 which does not cause an amino acid change. This is asilent point mutation at Valine, amino acid 694. There is a base changefrom C to T at position 2102 which causes an amino acid change fromProline to Serine at amino acid 696. There is a base change from C to Tat position 3808 which does not cause an amino acid change. This is asilent point mutation at Alanine, amino acid 1264. There is a basechange from G to A at position 3833 which causes an amino acid changefrom Valine to Isoleucine at amino acid 1273. There is a base changefrom C to T at position 4080 which causes an amino acid change fromThreonine to Isoleucine at amino acid 1355.

Each of the foregoing patents, patent applications and references ishereby incorporated by reference. While the invention has been describedwith respect to certain embodiments, it should be appreciated that manymodifications and changes may be made by those of ordinary skill in theart without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is intendedthat such modification, changes and equivalents fall within the scope ofthe following claims.

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210 215 220 ttg gcc atc agc cct gtt ctt gga ctt tca gcc gccatc tgg gca aag 724 Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala IleTrp Ala Lys 225 230 235 ata cta tct tca ttt act gat aaa gaa ctc ttg gcctat gca aaa gct 772 Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala TyrAla Lys Ala 240 245 250 gga gca gta gct gaa gaa gtc tta gca gca atc agaact gtg att gcc 820 Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg ThrVal Ile Ala 255 260 265 ttt gga gga caa aag aaa gaa ctt gaa agg tac aacaaa aat tta gaa 868 Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn LysAsn Leu Glu 270 275 280 gaa gct aaa gga att ggg ata aag aaa gct atc acggcc aac att tct 916 Glu Ala Lys Gly Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr AlaAsn Ile Ser 285 290 295 300 att ggt gcc gct ttc tta ttg atc tat gca tcatat gct ctg gct ttc 964 Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser TyrAla Leu Ala Phe 305 310 315 tgg tat ggg acc tcc ttg gtc ctc tcc agt gaatat tct att gga caa 1012 Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu TyrSer Ile Gly Gln 320 325 330 gta ctc act gtc ttc ttt tct gta tta att ggggct ttt agt att gga 1060 Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly AlaPhe Ser Ile Gly 335 340 345 cag gca tcc cca agc att gaa gca ttt gca aacgca aga gga gca gct 1108 Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn AlaArg Gly Ala Ala 350 355 360 tat gaa atc ttc aag ata att gac aat aaa ccaagc att gac agc tat 1156 Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro SerIle Asp Ser Tyr 365 370 375 380 tcg aag agt gga cat aaa cca gat aat attaag gga aat ttg gaa ttc 1204 Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile LysGly Asn Leu Glu Phe 385 390 395 aaa aat gtt cac ttc agt tac cct tct cgaaaa gaa gtt aag atc tta 1252 Lys Asn Val His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg LysGlu Val Lys Ile Leu 400 405 410 aag ggt ctc aac ctg aag gtt cag agt gggcag aca gtg gcg ctg gtt 1300 Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val Gln Ser Gly GlnThr Val Ala Leu Val 415 420 425 ggg aac agt ggc tgc ggg aag agc acg accgtg cag ctg atg cag agg 1348 Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr ValGln Leu Met Gln Arg 430 435 440 ctc tat gac ccc aca gat ggc atg gtc tgtatt gat gga cag gac att 1396 Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys IleAsp Gly Gln Asp Ile 445 450 455 460 agg acc ata aat gta agg cat ctt cgggaa att act ggt gtg gtg agt 1444 Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg His Leu Arg GluIle Thr Gly Val Val Ser 465 470 475 cag gag cct gtg ttg ttt gcc acc acgata gct gaa aac att cgc tat 1492 Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr IleAla Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr 480 485 490 ggc cgc gaa aat gtc acc atg gat gagatt gag aaa gct gtt aag gaa 1540 Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr Met Asp Glu IleGlu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu 495 500 505 gcc aat gcc tat gat ttt atc atg aaacta cct aat aaa ttt gac act 1588 Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met Lys LeuPro Asn Lys Phe Asp Thr 510 515 520 ctg gtt gga gag aga ggg gcc cag ctgagt ggt gga cag aaa cag aga 1636 Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu SerGly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg 525 530 535 540 atc gcc att gct cgg gcc ctg gttcgc aac ccc aag att ctt ctg ctg 1684 Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val ArgAsn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu 545 550 555 gat gag gca acg tca gct ctg gacact gaa agt gaa gca gtg gtt cag 1732 Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp ThrGlu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln 560 565 570 gtg gcc ctg gat aag gcc aga aaaggc cgg act acc att gtg ata gct 1780 Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys GlyArg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala 575 580 585 cat cgt ttg tct aca gtt cgt aatgcc gat gtc att gct ggt ttt gat 1828 His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg Asn AlaAsp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp 590 595 600 gat gga gtc att gtg gag aaa ggaaat cat gat gaa ctc atg aaa gag 1876 Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu Lys Gly AsnHis Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu 605 610 615 620 aag ggc att tac ttc aaa cttgtc aca atg cag aca aga gga aat gaa 1924 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu ValThr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu 625 630 635 att gag tta gaa aat gcc actggt gaa tcc aaa agt gaa agt gat gcc 1972 Ile Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala Thr GlyGlu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala 640 645 650 ttg gaa atg tct cca aaa gattca ggg tcc agt tta ata aaa aga aga 2020 Leu Glu Met Ser Pro Lys Asp SerGly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg 655 660 665 tca act cgc agg agt ata catgca cca caa ggc caa gac aga aag ctt 2068 Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Ile His AlaPro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu 670 675 680 ggt aca aaa gag gac ttg aatgag aat gta cct cca gtt tcc ttc tgg 2116 Gly Thr Lys Glu Asp Leu Asn GluAsn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp 685 690 695 700 agg att ctg aag ctg aactca act gaa tgg cct tat ttt gtg gtt ggt 2164 Arg Ile Leu Lys Leu Asn SerThr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly 705 710 715 ata ttt tgt gct att ataaac gga ggc ctg caa cca gca ttt tca ata 2212 Ile Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile AsnGly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile 720 725 730 ata ttt tca agg att ataggg atc ttt acc cga gat gag gat cct gaa 2260 Ile Phe Ser Arg Ile Ile GlyIle Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu 735 740 745 aca aaa cga cag aat agtaac atg ttt tct gta ttg ttt cta gtc ctt 2308 Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser AsnMet Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu 750 755 760 gga att att tct ttt attaca ttt ttc ctc cag ggc ttc aca ttt ggc 2356 Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile ThrPhe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly 765 770 775 780 aaa gct ggg gag atcctc act aag cgg ctt cga tac atg gtt ttc aga 2404 Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile LeuThr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg 785 790 795 tcc atg ctg aga caggat gtc agc tgg ttt gat gac cct aaa aac acc 2452 Ser Met Leu Arg Gln AspVal Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr 800 805 810 act gga gca ttg acaacc agg ctt gcc aat gat gcg gct caa gtt aaa 2500 Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr ThrArg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys 815 820 825 ggg gct ata ggt tccagg ctt gct gtc att acc cag aat ata gca aat 2548 Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser ArgLeu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn 830 835 840 ctt ggg aca ggc attatt ata tcc tta atc tat ggt tgg caa tta aca 2596 Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile IleIle Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr 845 850 855 860 ctt tta ctc ttagca att gta ccc atc att gca ata gca gga gtt gtt 2644 Leu Leu Leu Leu AlaIle Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val 865 870 875 gaa atg aaa atgttg tct gga caa gca ctg aaa gat aag aaa gag cta 2692 Glu Met Lys Met LeuSer Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu 880 885 890 gaa gga gct gggaag att gct aca gaa gcc atc gaa aac ttc cga act 2740 Glu Gly Ala Gly LysIle Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr 895 900 905 gtt gtt tct ttgact cgg gag cag aag ttt gaa tac atg tat gca cag 2788 Val Val Ser Leu ThrArg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln 910 915 920 agt ttg caa gtacca tac aga aac tct ttg agg aaa gca cac atc ttc 2836 Ser Leu Gln Val ProTyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe 925 930 935 940 ggg gtc tcattt tct atc acc cag gca atg atg tat ttt tcc tat gct 2884 Gly Val Ser PheSer Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala 945 950 955 ggc tgt ttccgg ttt ggt gcc tac ttg gtg gca aat gag ttc atg aac 2932 Gly Cys Phe ArgPhe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn 960 965 970 ttt cag gatgtt ctt ttg gta ttc tca gct att gtc ttt ggt gcc atg 2980 Phe Gln Asp ValLeu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met 975 980 985 gca gtg gggcag gtc agt tca ttt gct cct gac tat gcc aaa gcc aaa 3028 Ala Val Gly GlnVal Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys 990 995 1000 gta tca gcagcc cac gtc atc atg atc att gaa aaa agc cct ctg att 3076 Val Ser Ala AlaHis Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile 1005 1010 1015 1020 gacagc tac agc cct cac ggc ctc aag cca aat acg ttg gaa gga aat 3124 Asp SerTyr Ser Pro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn 1025 1030 1035gtg aca ttt aat gag gtc gtg ttc aac tat ccc act cga cca gac atc 3172 ValThr Phe Asn Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile 1040 10451050 ccc gtg ctc cag ggg ctg agc ctc gag gtg aag aag ggc cag acg ctg3220 Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu1055 1060 1065 gcc ctc gta ggt agc agt ggc tgt ggg aag agc aca gtt gttcag ctc 3268 Ala Leu Val Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val GlnLeu 1070 1075 1080 cta gag cgc ttc tat gac ccc ttg gct ggt tca gtg ctaatt gat ggc 3316 Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu IleAsp Gly 1085 1090 1095 1100 aaa gag ata aag cac ctg aat gtc cag tgg ctccga gca cac ctg ggc 3364 Lys Glu Ile Lys His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu ArgAla His Leu Gly 1105 1110 1115 atc gtg tct cag gag ccc atc ctg ttt gactgc agc att gcc gag aac 3412 Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp CysSer Ile Ala Glu Asn 1120 1125 1130 att gcc tat gga gac aac agc cgg gtcgta tca cat gaa gag att atg 3460 Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val ValSer His Glu Glu Ile Met 1135 1140 1145 cag gca gcc aag gag gcc aac atacac cac ttc atc gag aca ctc cct 3508 Gln Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile HisHis Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu Pro 1150 1155 1160 gag aaa tac aac acc aga gtagga gac aaa gga acc cag ctc tct ggt 3556 Glu Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg Val GlyAsp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly 1165 1170 1175 1180 ggc cag aaa cag cgcatt gcc ata gct cgc gct ctt gtt aga cag cct 3604 Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg IleAla Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro 1185 1190 1195 cat att ttg cttttg gat gaa gct aca tca gct ctg gat aca gaa agt 3652 His Ile Leu Leu LeuAsp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser 1200 1205 1210 gaa aag gttgtc caa gaa gcc ctg gac aaa gcc aga gaa ggc cgc acc 3700 Glu Lys Val ValGln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr 1215 1220 1225 tgc attgtg atc gcc cac cgc ttg tcc acc atc cag aat gca gat tta 3748 Cys Ile ValIle Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu 1230 1235 1240 atagtg gtg ttt cag aat ggc aaa gtc aag gag cat ggc aca cat caa 3796 Ile ValVal Phe Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln 1245 1250 12551260 cag ctg ctg gcc cag aaa ggc atc tat ttt tcc atg gtc agt gtc cag3844 Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln1265 1270 1275 gct gga gca aag cgc tagtgaactg tggccatatg agctgttaaatattttttaa 3899 Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg 1280 tatttgtgtt aaaacatggcatttaatcaa agttaaaagg tgagcactta ctggaaaaac 3959 tatgtagaac tacctgtttaacatttcttg ctgcaactga agatcattcc accaagttca 4019 gagtcttcag attttataattaaaggaacc aaaagaaaca ttatctgatg gaataaaata 4079 ctggtgttaa ttgcattataaaattataga gtaattcaaa gtagattttg ttaataaatt 4139 gtataatttt tgtttatattttatttgtaa cttactgctt tgctgaaaga ttatagaagt 4199 ggtaaaaagt actgaatgtttgaataaagt gctagctata ataaaactaa acttttatat 4259 caaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa4279 2 1281 PRT Canis familiaris 2 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys GlySer Ala Glu Lys Asn Phe Trp 1 5 10 15 Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys LysAsn Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met PheArg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Arg 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr MetAla Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Ala 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val PheGly Asn Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg AsnLys Thr Phe Pro Val Ile Ile Asn Glu 85 90 95 Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr GlnHis Phe Ile Asn His Leu Glu Glu Glu 100 105 110 Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala TyrTyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu 115 120 125 Val Ala Ala Tyr IleGln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg 130 135 140 Gln Ile Leu LysIle Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln 145 150 155 160 Glu IleGly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg 165 170 175 LeuThr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile 180 185 190Gly Met Phe Phe His Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val 195 200205 Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser 210215 220 Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser225 230 235 240 Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly AlaVal Ala 245 250 255 Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala PheGly Gly Gln 260 265 270 Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu GluGlu Ala Lys Gly 275 280 285 Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn IleSer Ile Gly Ala Ala 290 295 300 Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala LeuAla Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr 305 310 315 320 Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu TyrSer Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val 325 330 335 Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile GlyAla Phe Ser Ile Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro 340 345 350 Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe AlaAsn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe 355 360 365 Lys Ile Ile Asp AsnLys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly 370 375 380 His Lys Pro AspAsn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn Val His 385 390 395 400 Phe SerTyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn 405 410 415 LeuLys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly 420 425 430Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro 435 440445 Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn 450455 460 Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val465 470 475 480 Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly ArgGlu Asn 485 490 495 Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu AlaAsn Ala Tyr 500 505 510 Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp ThrLeu Val Gly Glu 515 520 525 Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys GlnArg Ile Ala Ile Ala 530 535 540 Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile LeuLeu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr 545 550 555 560 Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser GluAla Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp 565 570 575 Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg ThrThr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser 580 585 590 Thr Val Arg Asn Ala AspVal Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile 595 600 605 Val Glu Lys Gly AsnHis Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr 610 615 620 Phe Lys Leu ValThr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu Glu 625 630 635 640 Asn AlaThr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser 645 650 655 ProLys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg 660 665 670Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Gly Thr Lys Glu 675 680685 Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu Lys 690695 700 Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Ile Phe Cys Ala705 710 715 720 Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile PheSer Arg 725 730 735 Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu ThrLys Arg Gln 740 745 750 Asn Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu Val LeuGly Ile Ile Ser 755 760 765 Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr PheGly Lys Ala Gly Glu 770 775 780 Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met ValPhe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg 785 790 795 800 Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp AspPro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu 805 810 815 Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn AspAla Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly 820 825 830 Ser Arg Leu Ala Val IleThr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly 835 840 845 Ile Ile Ile Ser LeuIle Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu 850 855 860 Ala Ile Val ProIle Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met 865 870 875 880 Leu SerGly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly 885 890 895 LysIle Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu 900 905 910Thr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val 915 920925 Pro Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Val Ser Phe 930935 940 Ser Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg945 950 955 960 Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn Phe GlnAsp Val 965 970 975 Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met AlaVal Gly Gln 980 985 990 Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala LysVal Ser Ala Ala 995 1000 1005 His Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser ProLeu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser 1010 1015 1020 Pro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn ThrLeu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Asn 1025 1030 1035 1040 Glu Val Val Phe AsnTyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu Gln 1045 1050 1055 Gly Leu SerLeu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly 1060 1065 1070 SerSer Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg Phe 1075 10801085 Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys1090 1095 1100 His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly Ile ValSer Gln 1105 1110 1115 1120 Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala GluAsn Ile Ala Tyr Gly 1125 1130 1135 Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser His GluGlu Ile Met Gln Ala Ala Lys 1140 1145 1150 Glu Ala Asn Ile His His PheIle Glu Thr Leu Pro Glu Lys Tyr Asn 1155 1160 1165 Thr Arg Val Gly AspLys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln 1170 1175 1180 Arg Ile AlaIle Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu 1185 1190 1195 1200Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val 12051210 1215 Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile ValIle 1220 1225 1230 Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu IleVal Val Phe 1235 1240 1245 Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr HisGln Gln Leu Leu Ala 1250 1255 1260 Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met ValSer Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys 1265 1270 1275 1280 Arg 3 4317 DNA Canisfamiliaris CDS (70)...(3912) 3 ctaagtcgga gtatcttctt cccaaattcccttctcggtg gaggttgcga aggaaagccc 60 gaggtgacg atg gat cct gaa gga ggccgt aag ggg agt gca gag aag aac 111 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys GlySer Ala Glu Lys Asn 1 5 10 ttc tgg aaa atg ggc aaa aaa agt aaa aaa gagaag aaa gaa aag aaa 159 Phe Trp Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Glu LysLys Glu Lys Lys 15 20 25 30 cca act gtc agc acg ttt gca atg ttt cgc tattca aat tgg ctt gat 207 Pro Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr SerAsn Trp Leu Asp 35 40 45 agg ttg tat atg ttg gtg ggg aca atg gct gcc atcatc cat gga gct 255 Arg Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile IleHis Gly Ala 50 55 60 gca ctc cct ctc atg atg ctg gtt ttt gga aac atg acagat agc ttt 303 Ala Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr AspSer Phe 65 70 75 gca aat gca gga att tca aga aac aaa act ttt cca gtt ataatt aat 351 Ala Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro Val Ile IleAsn 80 85 90 gaa agt att acg aac aat aca caa cat ttc atc aac cat ctg gaggag 399 Glu Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn His Leu Glu Glu95 100 105 110 gaa atg acc acg tat gcc tat tat tac agt ggg atc ggt gctggc gtg 447 Glu Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala GlyVal 115 120 125 ctg gtg gct gct tac atc cag gtt tca ttc tgg tgc ctg gcagca gga 495 Leu Val Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala AlaGly 130 135 140 aga cag ata ctc aaa att aga aaa caa ttt ttt cat gct atcatg cga 543 Arg Gln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile MetArg 145 150 155 cag gag att ggc tgg ttt gac gtg cat gac gtt ggg gag cttaac acc 591 Gln Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu AsnThr 160 165 170 cgg ctc aca gac gat gtc tcc aaa atc aat gaa gga att ggcgac aaa 639 Arg Leu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly AspLys 175 180 185 190 gtt gga atg ttc ttt caa tca ata gca aca ttt ttc accggt ttt ata 687 Val Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr GlyPhe Ile 195 200 205 gtg ggg ttt aca cct ggt tgg aag cta acc ctt gtg attttg gcc atc 735 Val Gly Phe Thr Pro Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile LeuAla Ile 210 215 220 agc cct gtt ctt gga ctt tca gcc gcc atc tgg gca aagata cta tct 783 Ser Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala Lys IleLeu Ser 225 230 235 tca ttt act gat aaa gaa ctc ttg gcc tat gca aaa gctgga gca gta 831 Ser Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala GlyAla Val 240 245 250 gct gaa gaa gtc tta gca gca atc aga act gtg att gccttt gga gga 879 Ala Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala PheGly Gly 255 260 265 270 caa aag aaa gaa ctt gaa agg tac aac aaa aat ttagaa gaa gct aaa 927 Gln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu GluGlu Ala Lys 275 280 285 aga att ggg ata aag aaa gct atc acg gcc aac atttct att ggt gcc 975 Arg Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile SerIle Gly Ala 290 295 300 gct ttc tta ttg atc tat gca tca tat gct ctg gctttc tgg tat ggg 1023 Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala PheTrp Tyr Gly 305 310 315 acc tcc ttg gtc ctc tcc agt gaa tat act att ggacag gta ctc act 1071 Thr Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu Tyr Thr Ile Gly GlnVal Leu Thr 320 325 330 gtc ttc ttt tct gta tta att ggg gct ttt agt attgga cag gca tcc 1119 Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Ile GlyGln Ala Ser 335 340 345 350 cca agc att gaa gca ttt gca aac gca aga ggagca gct tat gaa atc 1167 Pro Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly AlaAla Tyr Glu Ile 355 360 365 ttc aag ata att gac aat aaa cca agc att gacagc tat tcg aag agt 1215 Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp SerTyr Ser Lys Ser 370 375 380 gga cat aaa cca gat aat att aag gga aat ttggaa ttc aaa aat gtt 1263 Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu GluPhe Lys Asn Val 385 390 395 cac ttc agt tac cct tct cga aaa gaa gtt aagatc tta aag ggt ctc 1311 His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys IleLeu Lys Gly Leu 400 405 410 aac ctg aag gtt cag agt ggg cag aca gtg gcgctg gtt ggg aac agt 1359 Asn Leu Lys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala LeuVal Gly Asn Ser 415 420 425 430 ggc tgc ggg aag agc acg acc gtg cag ctgatg cag agg ctc tat gac 1407 Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu MetGln Arg Leu Tyr Asp 435 440 445 ccc aca gat ggc atg gtc tgt att gat ggacag gac att agg acc ata 1455 Pro Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly GlnAsp Ile Arg Thr Ile 450 455 460 aat gta agg cat ctt cgg gaa att act ggtgtg gtg agt cag gag cct 1503 Asn Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly ValVal Ser Gln Glu Pro 465 470 475 gtg ttg ttt gcc acc acg ata gct gaa aacatt cgc tat ggc cgc gaa 1551 Val Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn IleArg Tyr Gly Arg Glu 480 485 490 aat gtc acc atg gat gag att gag aaa gctgtt aag gaa gcc aat gcc 1599 Asn Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala ValLys Glu Ala Asn Ala 495 500 505 510 tat gat ttt atc atg aaa cta cct aataaa ttt gac act ctg gtt gga 1647 Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro Asn LysPhe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly 515 520 525 gag aga ggg gcc cgg ctg agt ggt ggacag aaa cag aga atc gcc att 1695 Glu Arg Gly Ala Arg Leu Ser Gly Gly GlnLys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile 530 535 540 gct cgg gcc ctg gtt cgc aac ccc aagatt ctt ctg ctg gat gag gca 1743 Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys IleLeu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala 545 550 555 acg tca gct ctg gac act gaa agt gaagca gtg gtt cag gtg gcc ctg 1791 Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu AlaVal Val Gln Val Ala Leu 560 565 570 gat aag gcc aga aaa ggc cgg act accatt gtg ata gct cat cgt ttg 1839 Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr IleVal Ile Ala His Arg Leu 575 580 585 590 tct aca gtt cgt aat gcc gat gtcatt gct ggt ttt gat gat gga gtc 1887 Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val IleAla Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val 595 600 605 att gtg gag aaa gga aat cat gatgaa ctc atg aaa gag aag ggc att 1935 Ile Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp GluLeu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile 610 615 620 tac ttc aaa ctt gtc aca atg cagaca aga gga aat gaa att gag tta 1983 Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln ThrArg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu 625 630 635 gaa aat gcc act ggt gaa tcc aaaagt gaa agt gat gcc ttg gaa atg 2031 Glu Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys SerGlu Ser Asp Ala Leu Glu Met 640 645 650 tct cca aaa gat tca ggg tcc agttta ata aaa aga aga tca act cgc 2079 Ser Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser LeuIle Lys Arg Arg Ser Thr Arg 655 660 665 670 agg agt ata cat gca cca caaggc caa gac aga aag ctt ggt aca aaa 2127 Arg Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln GlyGln Asp Arg Lys Leu Gly Thr Lys 675 680 685 gag gac ttg aat gag aat gttcct tca gtt tcc ttc tgg agg att ctg 2175 Glu Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val ProSer Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu 690 695 700 aag ctg aac tca act gaa tggcct tat ttt gtg gtt ggt ata ttt tgt 2223 Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp ProTyr Phe Val Val Gly Ile Phe Cys 705 710 715 gct att ata aac gga ggc ctgcaa cca gca ttt tca ata ata ttt tca 2271 Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu GlnPro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile Phe Ser 720 725 730 agg att ata ggg atc ttt acccga gat gag gat cct gaa aca aaa cga 2319 Arg Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr ArgAsp Glu Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg 735 740 745 750 cag aat agt aac atg ttttct gta ttg ttt cta gtc ctt gga att att 2367 Gln Asn Ser Asn Met Phe SerVal Leu Phe Leu Val Leu Gly Ile Ile 755 760 765 tct ttt att aca ttt ttcctc cag ggc ttc aca ttt ggc aaa gct ggg 2415 Ser Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe LeuGln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly 770 775 780 gag atc ctc act aag cggctt cga tac atg gtt ttc aga tcc atg ctg 2463 Glu Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg LeuArg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu 785 790 795 aga cag gat gtc agc tggttt gat gac cct aaa aac acc act gga gca 2511 Arg Gln Asp Val Ser Trp PheAsp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala 800 805 810 ttg aca acc agg ctt gccaat gat gcg gct caa gtt aaa ggg gct ata 2559 Leu Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala AsnAsp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile 815 820 825 830 ggt tcc agg ctt gctgtc att acc cag aat ata gca aat ctt ggg aca 2607 Gly Ser Arg Leu Ala ValIle Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr 835 840 845 ggc att att ata tcctta atc tat ggt tgg caa tta aca ctt tta ctc 2655 Gly Ile Ile Ile Ser LeuIle Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu 850 855 860 tta gca att gta cccatc att gca ata gca gga gtt gtt gaa atg aaa 2703 Leu Ala Ile Val Pro IleIle Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys 865 870 875 atg ttg tct gga caagca ctg aaa gat aag aaa gag cta gaa gga gct 2751 Met Leu Ser Gly Gln AlaLeu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala 880 885 890 ggg aag att gct acagaa gcc atc gaa aac ttc cga act gtt gtt tct 2799 Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr GluAla Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser 895 900 905 910 ttg act cgg gagcag aag ttt gaa tac atg tat gca cag agt ttg caa 2847 Leu Thr Arg Glu GlnLys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln 915 920 925 gta cca tac agaaac tct ttg agg aaa gca cac atc ttc ggg gtc tca 2895 Val Pro Tyr Arg AsnSer Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Val Ser 930 935 940 ttt tct atc acccag gca atg atg tat ttt tcc tat gct ggc tgt ttc 2943 Phe Ser Ile Thr GlnAla Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe 945 950 955 cgg ttt ggt gcctac ttg gtg gca aat gag ttc atg aac ttt cag gat 2991 Arg Phe Gly Ala TyrLeu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn Phe Gln Asp 960 965 970 gtt ctt ttg gtattc tca gct att gtc ttt ggt gcc atg gca gtg ggg 3039 Val Leu Leu Val PheSer Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly 975 980 985 990 cag gtc agttca ttt gct cct gac tat gcc aaa gcc aaa gta tca gca 3087 Gln Val Ser SerPhe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Ser Ala 995 1000 1005 gcc cacgtc atc atg atc att gaa aaa agc cct ctg att gac agc tac 3135 Ala His ValIle Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr 1010 1015 1020 agccct cac ggc ctc aag cca aat acg ttg gaa gga aat gtg aca ttt 3183 Ser ProHis Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe 1025 1030 1035aat gag gtc gtg ttc aac tat ccc act cga cca gac atc ccc gtg ctc 3231 AsnGlu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu 1040 10451050 cag ggg ctg agc ctc gag gtg aag aag ggc cag acg ctg gcc ctc gta3279 Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val1055 1060 1065 1070 ggt agc agt ggc tgt ggg aag agc aca gtt gtt cag ctccta gag cgc 3327 Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu LeuGlu Arg 1075 1080 1085 ttc tat gac ccc ttg gct ggt tca gtg cta att gatggc aaa gag ata 3375 Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp GlyLys Glu Ile 1090 1095 1100 aag cac ctg aat gtc cag tgg ctc cga gca cacctg ggc atc gtg tct 3423 Lys His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His LeuGly Ile Val Ser 1105 1110 1115 cag gag ccc atc ctg ttt gac tgc agc attgcc gag aac att gcc tat 3471 Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile AlaGlu Asn Ile Ala Tyr 1120 1125 1130 gga gac aac agc cgg gtc gta tca catgaa gag att atg cag gca gcc 3519 Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser His GluGlu Ile Met Gln Ala Ala 1135 1140 1145 1150 aag gag gcc aac ata cac cacttc atc gag aca ctc cct gag aaa tac 3567 Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His His PheIle Glu Thr Leu Pro Glu Lys Tyr 1155 1160 1165 aac acc aga gta gga gacaaa gga acc cag ctc tct ggt ggc cag aaa 3615 Asn Thr Arg Val Gly Asp LysGly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys 1170 1175 1180 cag cgc att gcc atagct cgc gct ctt gtt aga cag cct cat att ttg 3663 Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile AlaArg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu 1185 1190 1195 ctt ttg gat gaagct aca tca gct ctg gat aca gaa agt gaa aag gtt 3711 Leu Leu Asp Glu AlaThr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val 1200 1205 1210 gtc caa gaagcc ctg gac aaa gcc aga gaa ggc cgc acc tgc att gtg 3759 Val Gln Glu AlaLeu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val 1215 1220 1225 1230 atcgcc cac cgc ttg tcc acc atc cag aat gca gat tta ata gtg gtg 3807 Ile AlaHis Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val 1235 1240 1245ttt cag aat ggc aaa gtc aag gag cat ggc aca cat caa cag ctg ctg 3855 PheGln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu 1250 12551260 gct cag aaa ggc atc tat ttt tcc atg atc agt gtc cag gct gga gca3903 Ala Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Ile Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Ala1265 1270 1275 aag cgc tag tgaactgtgg ccatatgagc tgttaaatat tttttaatat3952 Lys Arg 1280 ttgtgttaaa acatggcatt taatcaaagt taaaaggtga gcacttactggaaaaactat 4012 gtagaactac ctgtttaaca tttcttgctg caactgaaga tcattccaccaagttcagag 4072 tcttcagatt ttataattaa aggaaccaaa agaaacatta tctgatggaataaaatattg 4132 gtgttaattg cattataaaa ttatagagta attcaaagta gattttgttaataaattgta 4192 taatttttgt ttatatttta tttgtaactt actgctttgc tgaaagattatagaagtggt 4252 aaaaagtact gaatgtttga ataaagtgct agctataata aaactaaacttttatatgaa 4312 aaaaa 4317 4 1280 PRT Canis familiaris 4 Met Asp Pro GluGly Gly Arg Lys Gly Ser Ala Glu Lys Asn Phe Trp 1 5 10 15 Lys Met GlyLys Lys Ser Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro Thr 20 25 30 Val Ser ThrPhe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Arg Leu 35 40 45 Tyr Met LeuVal Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Ala Leu 50 55 60 Pro Leu MetMet Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Ala Asn 65 70 75 80 Ala GlyIle Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro Val Ile Ile Asn Glu Ser 85 90 95 Ile ThrAsn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn His Leu Glu Glu Glu Met 100 105 110 ThrThr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Val 115 120 125Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln 130 135140 Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln Glu 145150 155 160 Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr ArgLeu 165 170 175 Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp LysVal Gly 180 185 190 Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly PheIle Val Gly 195 200 205 Phe Thr Pro Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile LeuAla Ile Ser Pro 210 215 220 Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala LysIle Leu Ser Ser Phe 225 230 235 240 Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr AlaLys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu 245 250 255 Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg ThrVal Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys 260 265 270 Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr AsnLys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg Ile 275 280 285 Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala IleThr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe 290 295 300 Leu Leu Ile Tyr AlaSer Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser 305 310 315 320 Leu Val LeuSer Ser Glu Tyr Thr Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val Phe 325 330 335 Phe SerVal Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Ile Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser 340 345 350 IleGlu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys 355 360 365Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly His 370 375380 Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn Val His Phe 385390 395 400 Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu AsnLeu 405 410 415 Lys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn SerGly Cys 420 425 430 Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu TyrAsp Pro Thr 435 440 445 Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile ArgThr Ile Asn Val 450 455 460 Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly Val Val SerGln Glu Pro Val Leu 465 470 475 480 Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn IleArg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn Val 485 490 495 Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys AlaVal Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp 500 505 510 Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro AsnLys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg 515 520 525 Gly Ala Arg Leu Ser GlyGly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg 530 535 540 Ala Leu Val Arg AsnPro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser 545 550 555 560 Ala Leu AspThr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp Lys 565 570 575 Ala ArgLys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr 580 585 590 ValArg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile Val 595 600 605Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe 610 615620 Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu Glu Asn 625630 635 640 Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala Leu Glu Met SerPro 645 650 655 Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg Ser Thr ArgArg Ser 660 665 670 Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Gly ThrLys Glu Asp 675 680 685 Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Ser Val Ser Phe Trp ArgIle Leu Lys Leu 690 695 700 Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val GlyIle Phe Cys Ala Ile 705 710 715 720 Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala PheSer Ile Ile Phe Ser Arg Ile 725 730 735 Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp GluAsp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn 740 745 750 Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val LeuPhe Leu Val Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe 755 760 765 Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu GlnGly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile 770 775 780 Leu Thr Lys Arg LeuArg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg Gln 785 790 795 800 Asp Val SerTrp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr 805 810 815 Thr ArgLeu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser 820 825 830 ArgLeu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile 835 840 845Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala 850 855860 Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu 865870 875 880 Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala GlyLys 885 890 895 Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val SerLeu Thr 900 905 910 Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser LeuGln Val Pro 915 920 925 Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe GlyVal Ser Phe Ser 930 935 940 Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr AlaGly Cys Phe Arg Phe 945 950 955 960 Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu PheMet Asn Phe Gln Asp Val Leu 965 970 975 Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val PheGly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val 980 985 990 Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp TyrAla Lys Ala Lys Val Ser Ala Ala His 995 1000 1005 Val Ile Met Ile IleGlu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Pro 1010 1015 1020 His Gly LeuLys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Asn Glu 1025 1030 1035 1040Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu Gln Gly 10451050 1055 Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val GlySer 1060 1065 1070 Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu GluArg Phe Tyr 1075 1080 1085 Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp GlyLys Glu Ile Lys His 1090 1095 1100 Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala HisLeu Gly Ile Val Ser Gln Glu 1105 1110 1115 1120 Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp CysSer Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp 1125 1130 1135 Asn Ser Arg ValVal Ser His Glu Glu Ile Met Gln Ala Ala Lys Glu 1140 1145 1150 Ala AsnIle His His Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu Pro Glu Lys Tyr Asn Thr 1155 1160 1165Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg 11701175 1180 Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu LeuLeu 1185 1190 1195 1200 Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser GluLys Val Val Gln 1205 1210 1215 Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly ArgThr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala 1220 1225 1230 His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln AsnAla Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe Gln 1235 1240 1245 Asn Gly Lys Val Lys GluHis Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln 1250 1255 1260 Lys Gly Ile TyrPhe Ser Met Ile Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg 1265 1270 1275 1280 51107 DNA Canis familiaris CDS (1)...(1107) 5 acg tca gct ctg gac act gaaagt gaa gca gtg gtt cag gtg gcc ctg 48 Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu SerGlu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu 1 5 10 15 gat aag gcc aga aaa ggc cggact acc att gtg ata gct cat cgt ttg 96 Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg ThrThr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu 20 25 30 tct aca gtt cgt aat gcc gat gtcatt gct ggt ttt gat gat gga gtc 144 Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val IleAla Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val 35 40 45 att gtg gag aaa gga aat cat gat gaactc atg aaa gag aaa ggc att 192 Ile Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu LeuMet Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile 50 55 60 tac ttc aaa ctt gtc aca atg cag aca agagga aat gaa att gac tta 240 Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Arg GlyAsn Glu Ile Asp Leu 65 70 75 80 gaa aat gcc act ggt gaa tcc aaa agt gaaagt gat gcc ttg gaa atg 288 Glu Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu SerAsp Ala Leu Glu Met 85 90 95 tct cca aaa gat tca ggg tcc agt tta ata aaaaga aga tca act cgc 336 Ser Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys ArgArg Ser Thr Arg 100 105 110 agg agt ata cat gca cca caa ggc caa gac agaaag ctt ggt aca aaa 384 Arg Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg LysLeu Gly Thr Lys 115 120 125 gag gac ttg aat gag aat gta cct cca gtt tccttc tgg agg att ctg 432 Glu Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val Ser PheTrp Arg Ile Leu 130 135 140 aag ctg aac tca act gaa tgg cct tat ttt gtggtt ggt ata ttt tgt 480 Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val ValGly Ile Phe Cys 145 150 155 160 gct att ata aac gga ggc ctg cag cca gcattt tca ata ata ttt tca 528 Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala PheSer Ile Ile Phe Ser 165 170 175 agg att ata ggg atc ttt acc cga gat gaggat cct gaa aca aaa cga 576 Arg Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu AspPro Glu Thr Lys Arg 180 185 190 cag att agt aac atg ttt tct gta ttg tttcta gtc ctt gga att att 624 Gln Ile Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe LeuVal Leu Gly Ile Ile 195 200 205 tct ttt att aca ttt ttc ctt cag ggt ttcaca ttt ggc aaa gct gga 672 Ser Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe ThrPhe Gly Lys Ala Gly 210 215 220 gag atc ctc act aag cgg ctt cga tac atggtt ttc aga tcc atg ctg 720 Glu Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met ValPhe Arg Ser Met Leu 225 230 235 240 aga cag gat gtc agc tgg ttt gat gacctt aaa aac acc act gga gca 768 Arg Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp LeuLys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala 245 250 255 ttg acc acc agg ctt gcc aat gat gctgct caa gtt aaa ggg gct ata 816 Leu Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala AlaGln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile 260 265 270 ggt tcc agg ctt gct gtc att acc cagaat ata gca aat ctt ggg aca 864 Gly Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln AsnIle Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr 275 280 285 ggc att att ata tcc tta atc tat ggttgg caa tta aca ctt tta ctc 912 Gly Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly TrpGln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu 290 295 300 tta gca att gta ccc atc att gca atagca gga gtt gtt gaa atg aaa 960 Leu Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile AlaGly Val Val Glu Met Lys 305 310 315 320 atg ttg tct gga caa gca ctg aaagat aag aaa gag cta gaa gga gct 1008 Met Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys AspLys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala 325 330 335 ggg aag att gct aca gaa gcc atcgaa aac ttc cga act gtt gtt tct 1056 Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile GluAsn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser 340 345 350 ttg act cag gag cag aag ttt gaacac atg tat gca cag agt ttg cag 1104 Leu Thr Gln Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu HisMet Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln 355 360 365 gta 1107 6 368 PRT Canisfamiliaris 6 Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val AlaLeu 1 5 10 15 Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala HisArg Leu 20 25 30 Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp AspGly Val 35 40 45 Ile Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu LysGly Ile 50 55 60 Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu IleAsp Leu 65 70 75 80 Glu Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp AlaLeu Glu Met 85 90 95 Ser Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg ArgSer Thr Arg 100 105 110 Arg Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg LysLeu Gly Thr Lys 115 120 125 Glu Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val SerPhe Trp Arg Ile Leu 130 135 140 Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr PheVal Val Gly Ile Phe Cys 145 150 155 160 Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu GlnPro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile Phe Ser 165 170 175 Arg Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe ThrArg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg 180 185 190 Gln Ile Ser Asn Met PheSer Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu Gly Ile Ile 195 200 205 Ser Phe Ile Thr PhePhe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly 210 215 220 Glu Ile Leu ThrLys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu 225 230 235 240 Arg GlnAsp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Leu Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala 245 250 255 LeuThr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile 260 265 270Gly Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr 275 280285 Gly Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu 290295 300 Leu Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys305 310 315 320 Met Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu GluGly Ala 325 330 335 Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg ThrVal Val Ser 340 345 350 Leu Thr Gln Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu His Met Tyr AlaGln Ser Leu Gln 355 360 365 7 1280 PRT Homo sapiens 7 Met Asp Leu GluGly Asp Arg Asn Gly Gly Ala Lys Lys Lys Asn Phe 1 5 10 15 Phe Lys LeuAsn Asn Lys Ser Glu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val SerVal Phe Ser Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Lys 35 40 45 Leu Tyr MetVal Val Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Gly 50 55 60 Leu Pro LeuMet Met Leu Val Phe Gly Glu Met Thr Asp Ile Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn AlaGly Asn Leu Glu Asp Leu Met Ser Asn Ile Thr Asn Arg Ser 85 90 95 Asp IleAsn Asp Thr Gly Phe Phe Met Asn Leu Glu Glu Asp Met Thr 100 105 110 ArgTyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala 115 120 125Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile 130 135140 His Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile 145150 155 160 Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg LeuThr 165 170 175 Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Val Ile Gly Asp Lys IleGly Met 180 185 190 Phe Phe Gln Ser Met Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe IleVal Gly Phe 195 200 205 Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu AlaIle Ser Pro Val 210 215 220 Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Val Trp Ala Lys IleLeu Ser Ser Phe Thr 225 230 235 240 Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala LysAla Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu 245 250 255 Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr ValIle Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys 260 265 270 Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn LysAsn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg Ile Gly 275 280 285 Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile ThrAla Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu 290 295 300 Leu Ile Tyr Ala SerTyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr Thr Leu 305 310 315 320 Val Leu SerGly Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe 325 330 335 Ser ValLeu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Val Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile 340 345 350 GluAla Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile 355 360 365Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys 370 375380 Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Arg Asn Val His Phe Ser 385390 395 400 Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn LeuLys 405 410 415 Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser GlyCys Gly 420 425 430 Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr AspPro Thr Glu 435 440 445 Gly Met Val Ser Val Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg ThrIle Asn Val Arg 450 455 460 Phe Leu Arg Glu Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser GlnGlu Pro Val Leu Phe 465 470 475 480 Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile ArgTyr Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr 485 490 495 Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala ValLys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe 500 505 510 Ile Met Lys Leu Pro His LysPhe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly 515 520 525 Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly GlyGln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala 530 535 540 Leu Val Arg Asn ProLys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala 545 550 555 560 Leu Asp ThrGlu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala 565 570 575 Arg LysGly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val 580 585 590 ArgAsn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu 595 600 605Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys 610 615620 Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Ala Gly Asn Glu Val Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala 625630 635 640 Ala Asp Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ile Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser SerAsn 645 650 655 Asp Ser Arg Ser Ser Leu Ile Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Arg ArgSer Val 660 665 670 Arg Gly Ser Gln Ala Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Ser Thr LysGlu Ala Leu 675 680 685 Asp Glu Ser Ile Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg IleMet Lys Leu Asn 690 695 700 Leu Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly ValPhe Cys Ala Ile Ile 705 710 715 720 Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe AlaIle Ile Phe Ser Lys Ile Ile 725 730 735 Gly Val Phe Thr Arg Ile Asp AspPro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser 740 745 750 Asn Leu Phe Ser Leu Leu PheLeu Ala Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile 755 760 765 Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln GlyPhe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu 770 775 780 Thr Lys Arg Leu ArgTyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp 785 790 795 800 Val Ser TrpPhe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr 805 810 815 Arg LeuAla Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser Arg 820 825 830 LeuAla Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile 835 840 845Ile Ser Phe Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile 850 855860 Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser 865870 875 880 Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly LysIle 885 890 895 Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser LeuThr Gln 900 905 910 Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu His Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu GlnVal Pro Tyr 915 920 925 Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly IleThr Phe Ser Phe 930 935 940 Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala GlyCys Phe Arg Phe Gly 945 950 955 960 Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala His Lys Leu MetSer Phe Glu Asp Val Leu Leu 965 970 975 Val Phe Ser Ala Val Val Phe GlyAla Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser 980 985 990 Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr AlaLys Ala Lys Ile Ser Ala Ala His Ile 995 1000 1005 Ile Met Ile Ile GluLys Thr Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Thr Glu 1010 1015 1020 Gly Leu MetPro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Gly Glu Val 1025 1030 1035 1040Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu 10451050 1055 Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly SerSer 1060 1065 1070 Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu ArgPhe Tyr Asp 1075 1080 1085 Pro Leu Ala Gly Lys Val Leu Leu Asp Gly LysGlu Ile Lys Arg Leu 1090 1095 1100 Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His LeuGly Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro 1105 1110 1115 1120 Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys SerIle Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn 1125 1130 1135 Ser Arg Val ValSer Gln Glu Glu Ile Val Arg Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala 1140 1145 1150 Asn IleHis Ala Phe Ile Glu Ser Leu Pro Asn Lys Tyr Ser Thr Lys 1155 1160 1165Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile 11701175 1180 Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu LeuAsp 1185 1190 1195 1200 Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu LysVal Val Gln Glu 1205 1210 1215 Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg ThrCys Ile Val Ile Ala His 1220 1225 1230 Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn AlaAsp Leu Ile Val Val Phe Gln Asn 1235 1240 1245 Gly Arg Val Lys Glu HisGly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys 1250 1255 1260 Gly Ile Tyr PheSer Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Thr Lys Arg Gln 1265 1270 1275 1280 81279 PRT Homo sapiens 8 Met Asp Leu Glu Gly Asp Arg Asn Gly Gly Ala LysLys Lys Asn Phe 1 5 10 15 Phe Lys Leu Asn Asn Lys Ser Glu Lys Asp LysLys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Val Phe Ser Met Phe Arg Tyr SerAsn Trp Leu Asp Lys 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Val Val Gly Thr Leu Ala Ala IleIle His Gly Ala Gly 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Glu MetThr Asp Ile Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Asn Leu Glu Asp Leu Met SerAsn Ile Thr Asn Arg Ser 85 90 95 Asp Ile Asn Asp Thr Gly Phe Phe Met AsnLeu Glu Glu Asp Met Thr 100 105 110 Arg Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly IleGly Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala 115 120 125 Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe TrpCys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile 130 135 140 His Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln PhePhe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile 145 150 155 160 Gly Trp Phe Asp ValHis Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr 165 170 175 Asp Asp Val SerLys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met 180 185 190 Phe Phe GlnSer Met Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val Gly Phe 195 200 205 Thr ArgGly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val 210 215 220 LeuGly Leu Ser Ala Ala Val Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr 225 230 235240 Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu 245250 255 Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys260 265 270 Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Arg IleGly 275 280 285 Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala AlaPhe Leu 290 295 300 Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr GlyThr Thr Leu 305 310 315 320 Val Leu Ser Gly Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln ValLeu Thr Val Phe Ser 325 330 335 Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Val Gly GlnAla Ser Pro Ser Ile Glu 340 345 350 Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala AlaTyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile Ile 355 360 365 Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp SerTyr Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys Pro 370 375 380 Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn LeuGlu Phe Arg Asn Val His Phe Ser Tyr 385 390 395 400 Pro Ser Arg Lys GluVal Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val 405 410 415 Gln Ser Gly GlnThr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys 420 425 430 Ser Thr ThrVal Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Glu Gly 435 440 445 Met ValSer Val Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg Phe 450 455 460 LeuArg Glu Ile Ile Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala 465 470 475480 Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr Met 485490 495 Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile500 505 510 Met Lys Leu Pro His Lys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu Arg GlyAla 515 520 525 Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala ArgAla Leu 530 535 540 Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala ThrSer Ala Leu 545 550 555 560 Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val AlaLeu Asp Lys Ala Arg 565 570 575 Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala HisArg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg 580 585 590 Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe AspAsp Gly Val Ile Val Glu Lys 595 600 605 Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met LysGlu Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu 610 615 620 Val Thr Met Gln Thr Ala GlyAsn Glu Val Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala Ala 625 630 635 640 Asp Glu Ser Lys SerGlu Ile Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser Ser Asn Asp 645 650 655 Ser Arg Ser SerLeu Ile Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Val Arg 660 665 670 Gly Ser GlnAla Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Ser Thr Lys Glu Ala Leu Asp 675 680 685 Glu SerIle Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Met Lys Leu Asn Leu 690 695 700 ThrGlu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Val Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile Asn 705 710 715720 Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ala Ile Ile Phe Ser Lys Ile Ile Gly 725730 735 Val Phe Thr Arg Ile Asp Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser Asn740 745 750 Leu Phe Ser Leu Leu Phe Leu Ala Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe IleThr 755 760 765 Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu IleLeu Thr 770 775 780 Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu ArgGln Asp Val 785 790 795 800 Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr GlyAla Leu Thr Thr Arg 805 810 815 Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys GlyAla Ile Gly Ser Arg Leu 820 825 830 Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala AsnLeu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile Ile 835 840 845 Ser Phe Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln LeuThr Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile Val 850 855 860 Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala GlyVal Val Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser Gly 865 870 875 880 Gln Ala Leu Lys AspLys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly Lys Ile Ala 885 890 895 Thr Glu Ala IleGlu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu Thr Gln Glu 900 905 910 Gln Lys PheGlu His Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr Arg 915 920 925 Asn SerLeu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Ile Thr Phe Ser Phe Thr 930 935 940 GlnAla Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly Ala 945 950 955960 Tyr Leu Val Ala His Lys Leu Met Ser Phe Glu Asp Val Leu Leu Val 965970 975 Phe Ser Ala Val Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser Ser980 985 990 Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Ile Ser Ala Ala His IleIle 995 1000 1005 Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Thr Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr SerThr Glu Gly 1010 1015 1020 Leu Met Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val ThrPhe Gly Glu Val Val 1025 1030 1035 1040 Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro AspIle Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu Ser 1045 1050 1055 Leu Glu Val Lys Lys GlyGln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly Ser Ser Gly 1060 1065 1070 Cys Gly Lys SerThr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro 1075 1080 1085 Leu AlaGly Lys Val Leu Leu Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys Arg Leu Asn 1090 1095 1100Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile 11051110 1115 1120 Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly AspAsn Ser 1125 1130 1135 Arg Val Val Ser Gln Glu Glu Ile Val Arg Ala AlaLys Glu Ala Asn 1140 1145 1150 Ile His Ala Phe Ile Glu Ser Leu Pro AsnLys Tyr Ser Thr Lys Val 1155 1160 1165 Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu SerGly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala 1170 1175 1180 Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu ValArg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu 1185 1190 1195 1200 Ala Thr SerAla Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala 1205 1210 1215 LeuAsp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg 1220 12251230 Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe Gln Asn Gly1235 1240 1245 Arg Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala GlnLys Gly 1250 1255 1260 Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly ThrLys Arg Gln 1265 1270 1275 9 24 DNA Homo sapiens 9 gaactgtgat tgcgtttggaggac 24 10 22 DNA Canis familiaris 10 ttcagggccg cctgtacctc tg 22 11 22DNA Canis familiaris 11 ccccacagat ggcatggtct gt 22 12 23 DNA Homosapiens 12 cgcttggtga ggatctctcc agc 23 13 24 DNA Canis familiaris 13agaaacagag aatcgccatt gctc 24 14 23 DNA Homo sapiens 14 gctgcagtcaaacaggatgg gct 23 15 24 DNA Canis familiaris 15 agttcatttg ctcctgactatgcc 24 16 22 DNA Homo sapiens 16 gatgcctttc tgggccagca gc 22 17 30 DNACanis familiaris 17 gaggtgaaga agggccagac gctggccctc 30 18 45 DNAArtificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 18 ctaatacgac tcactatagggcaagcagtg gtaacaacgc agagt 45 19 29 DNA Canis familiaris 19 cgcagccactgttcccaacc agcgccact 29 20 23 DNA Homo sapiens 20 ggagcgcgag gtcgggatggatc 23 21 31 DNA Canis familiaris 21 ggagaggacc aaggaggtcc cataccagaa a31 22 4279 DNA Canis familiaris CDS (17)...(3859) 22 ggagcgcgag gtcgggatg gat cct gaa gga ggc cgt aag ggg agt gca gag 52 Met Asp Pro Glu GlyGly Arg Lys Gly Ser Ala Glu 1 5 10 aag aac ttc tgg aaa atg ggc aaa aaaagt aaa aaa aat gag aag aaa 100 Lys Asn Phe Trp Lys Met Gly Lys Lys SerLys Lys Asn Glu Lys Lys 15 20 25 gaa aag aaa cca act gtc agc acg ttt gcaatg ttt cgc tat tca aat 148 Glu Lys Lys Pro Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala MetPhe Arg Tyr Ser Asn 30 35 40 tgg ctt gat agg ttg tat atg ttg gtg ggg acaatg gct gcc atc atc 196 Trp Leu Asp Arg Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr MetAla Ala Ile Ile 45 50 55 60 cat gga gct gca ctc cct ctc atg atg ctg gttttt gga aac atg aca 244 His Gly Ala Ala Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val PheGly Asn Met Thr 65 70 75 gat agc ttt gca aat gca gga att tca aga aac aaaact ttt cca gtt 292 Asp Ser Phe Ala Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys ThrPhe Pro Val 80 85 90 ata att aat gaa agt att acg aac aat aca caa cat ttcatc aac cat 340 Ile Ile Asn Glu Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe IleAsn His 95 100 105 ctg gag gag gaa atg acc acg tat gcc tat tat tac agtggg atc ggt 388 Leu Glu Glu Glu Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser GlyIle Gly 110 115 120 gct ggc gtg ctg gtg gct gct tac atc cag gtt tca ttctgg tgc ctg 436 Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe TrpCys Leu 125 130 135 140 gca gca gga aga cag ata ctc aaa att aga aaa caattt ttt cat gct 484 Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln PhePhe His Ala 145 150 155 atc atg cga cag gag att ggc tgg ttt gac gtg catgac gtt ggg gag 532 Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His AspVal Gly Glu 160 165 170 ctt aac acc cgg ctc aca gac gat gtc tcc aaa atcaat gaa gga att 580 Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile AsnGlu Gly Ile 175 180 185 ggc gac aaa att gga atg ttc ttt caa tca ata gcaaca ttt ttc acc 628 Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala ThrPhe Phe Thr 190 195 200 ggt ttt ata gtg ggg ttt aca cgt ggt tgg aag ctaacc ctt gtg att 676 Gly Phe Ile Val Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu ThrLeu Val Ile 205 210 215 220 ttg gcc atc agc cct gtt ctt gga ctt tca gccgcc atc tgg gca aag 724 Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala AlaIle Trp Ala Lys 225 230 235 ata cta tct tca ttt act gat aaa gaa ctc ttggcc tat gca aaa gct 772 Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu AlaTyr Ala Lys Ala 240 245 250 gga gca gta gct gaa gaa gtc tta gca gca atcaga act gtg att gcc 820 Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile ArgThr Val Ile Ala 255 260 265 ttt gga gga caa aag aaa gaa ctt gaa agg tacaac aaa aat tta gaa 868 Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr AsnLys Asn Leu Glu 270 275 280 gaa gct aaa gga att ggg ata aag aaa gct atcacg gcc aac att tct 916 Glu Ala Lys Gly Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile ThrAla Asn Ile Ser 285 290 295 300 att ggt gcc gct ttc tta ttg atc tat gcatca tat gct ctg gct ttc 964 Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala SerTyr Ala Leu Ala Phe 305 310 315 tgg tat ggg acc tcc ttg gtc ctc tcc agtgaa tat tct att gga caa 1012 Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser GluTyr Ser Ile Gly Gln 320 325 330 gta ctc act gtc ttc ttt tct gta tta attggg gct ttt agt att gga 1060 Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile GlyAla Phe Ser Ile Gly 335 340 345 cag gca tcc cca agc att gaa gca ttt gcaaac gca aga gga gca gct 1108 Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala AsnAla Arg Gly Ala Ala 350 355 360 tat gaa atc ttc aag ata att gac aat aaacca agc att gac agc tat 1156 Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys ProSer Ile Asp Ser Tyr 365 370 375 380 tcg aag agt gga cat aaa cca gat aatatt aag gga aat ttg gaa ttc 1204 Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn IleLys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe 385 390 395 aaa aat gtt cac ttc agt tac cct tctcga aaa gaa gtt aag atc tta 1252 Lys Asn Val His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser ArgLys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu 400 405 410 aag ggt ctc aac ctg aag gtt cag agtggg cag aca gtg gcg ctg gtt 1300 Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val Gln Ser GlyGln Thr Val Ala Leu Val 415 420 425 ggg aac agt ggc tgc ggg aag agc acgacc gtg cag ctg atg cag agg 1348 Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr ThrVal Gln Leu Met Gln Arg 430 435 440 ctc tat gac ccc aca gat ggc atg gtctgt att gat gga cag gac att 1396 Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Asp Gly Met Val CysIle Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile 445 450 455 460 agg acc ata aat gta agg cat cttcgg gaa att act ggt gtg gtg agt 1444 Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg His Leu ArgGlu Ile Thr Gly Val Val Ser 465 470 475 cag gag cct gtg ttg ttt gcc accacg ata gct gaa aac att cgc tat 1492 Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala Thr ThrIle Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr 480 485 490 ggc cgc gaa aat gtc acc atg gatgag att gag aaa gct gtt aag gaa 1540 Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr Met Asp GluIle Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu 495 500 505 gcc aat gcc tat gat ttt atc atgaaa cta cct aat aaa ttt gac act 1588 Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met LysLeu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp Thr 510 515 520 ctg gtt gga gag aga ggg gcc cagctg agt ggt gga cag aaa cag aga 1636 Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala Gln LeuSer Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg 525 530 535 540 atc gcc att gct cgg gcc ctggtt cgc aac ccc aag att ctt ctg ctg 1684 Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu ValArg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu 545 550 555 gat gag gca acg tca gct ctggac act gaa agt gaa gca gtg gtt cag 1732 Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu AspThr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln 560 565 570 gtg gcc ctg gat aag gcc agaaaa ggc cgg act acc att gtg ata gct 1780 Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg LysGly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala 575 580 585 cat cgt ttg tct aca gtt cgtaat gcc gat gtc att gct ggt ttt gat 1828 His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg AsnAla Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp 590 595 600 gat gga gtc att gtg gag aaagga aat cat gat gaa ctc atg aaa gag 1876 Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu Lys GlyAsn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu 605 610 615 620 aag ggc att tac ttc aaactt gtc aca atg cag aca aga gga aat gaa 1924 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys LeuVal Thr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu 625 630 635 att gag tta gaa aat gccact ggt gaa tcc aaa agt gaa agt gat gcc 1972 Ile Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala ThrGly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala 640 645 650 ttg gaa atg tct cca aaagat tca ggg tcc agt tta ata aaa aga aga 2020 Leu Glu Met Ser Pro Lys AspSer Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg 655 660 665 tca act cgc agg agt atacat gca cca caa ggc caa gac aga aag ctt 2068 Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Ile HisAla Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu 670 675 680 ggt aca aaa gag gac ttgaat gag aat gta cct cca gtt tcc ttc tgg 2116 Gly Thr Lys Glu Asp Leu AsnGlu Asn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp 685 690 695 700 agg att ctg aag ctgaac tca act gaa tgg cct tat ttt gtg gtt ggt 2164 Arg Ile Leu Lys Leu AsnSer Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly 705 710 715 ata ttt tgt gct attata aac gga ggc ctg caa cca gca ttt tca ata 2212 Ile Phe Cys Ala Ile IleAsn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile 720 725 730 ata ttt tca agg attata ggg atc ttt acc cga gat gag gat cct gaa 2260 Ile Phe Ser Arg Ile IleGly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu 735 740 745 aca aaa cga cag aatagt aac atg ttt tct gta ttg ttt cta gtc ctt 2308 Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn SerAsn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu 750 755 760 gga att att tct tttatt aca ttt ttc ctc cag ggc ttc aca ttt ggc 2356 Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe IleThr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly 765 770 775 780 aaa gct ggg gagatc ctc act aag cgg ctt cga tac atg gtt ttc aga 2404 Lys Ala Gly Glu IleLeu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg 785 790 795 tcc atg ctg agacag gat gtc agc tgg ttt gat gac cct aaa aac acc 2452 Ser Met Leu Arg GlnAsp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr 800 805 810 act gga gca ttgaca acc agg ctt gcc aat gat gcg gct caa gtt aaa 2500 Thr Gly Ala Leu ThrThr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys 815 820 825 ggg gct ata ggttcc agg ctt gct gtc att acc cag aat ata gca aat 2548 Gly Ala Ile Gly SerArg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn 830 835 840 ctt ggg aca ggcatt att ata tcc tta atc tat ggt tgg caa tta aca 2596 Leu Gly Thr Gly IleIle Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr 845 850 855 860 ctt tta ctctta gca att gta ccc atc att gca ata gca gga gtt gtt 2644 Leu Leu Leu LeuAla Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val 865 870 875 gaa atg aaaatg ttg tct gga caa gca ctg aaa gat aag aaa gag cta 2692 Glu Met Lys MetLeu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu 880 885 890 gaa gga gctggg aag att gct aca gaa gcc atc gaa aac ttc cga act 2740 Glu Gly Ala GlyLys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr 895 900 905 gtt gtt tctttg act cgg gag cag aag ttt gaa tac atg tat gca cag 2788 Val Val Ser LeuThr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln 910 915 920 agt ttg caagta cca tac aga aac tct ttg agg aaa gca cac atc ttc 2836 Ser Leu Gln ValPro Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe 925 930 935 940 ggg gtctca ttt tct atc acc cag gca atg atg tat ttt tcc tat gct 2884 Gly Val SerPhe Ser Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala 945 950 955 ggc tgtttc cgg ttt ggt gcc tac ttg gtg gca aat gag ttc atg aac 2932 Gly Cys PheArg Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn 960 965 970 ttt caggat gtt ctt ttg gta ttc tca gct att gtc ttt ggt gcc atg 2980 Phe Gln AspVal Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met 975 980 985 gca gtgggg cag gtc agt tca ttt gct cct gac tat gcc aaa gcc aaa 3028 Ala Val GlyGln Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys 990 995 1000 gta tcagca gcc cac gtc atc atg atc att gaa aaa agc cct ctg att 3076 Val Ser AlaAla His Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile 1005 1010 1015 1020gac agc tac agc cct cac ggc ctc aag cca aat acg ttg gaa gga aat 3124 AspSer Tyr Ser Pro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn 1025 10301035 gtg aca ttt aat gag gtc gtg ttc aac tat ccc act cga cca gac atc3172 Val Thr Phe Asn Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile1040 1045 1050 ccc gtg ctc cag ggg ctg agc ctc gag gtg aag aag ggc cagacg ctg 3220 Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln ThrLeu 1055 1060 1065 gcc ctc gta ggt agc agt ggc tgt ggg aag agc aca gttgtt cag ctc 3268 Ala Leu Val Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val ValGln Leu 1070 1075 1080 cta gag cgc ttc tat gac ccc ttg gct ggt tca gtgcta att gat ggc 3316 Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val LeuIle Asp Gly 1085 1090 1095 1100 aaa gag ata aag cac ctg aat gtc cag tggctc cga gca cac ctg ggc 3364 Lys Glu Ile Lys His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp LeuArg Ala His Leu Gly 1105 1110 1115 atc gtg tct cag gag ccc atc ctg tttgac tgc agc att gcc gag aac 3412 Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe AspCys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn 1120 1125 1130 att gcc tat gga gac aac agc cgggtc gta tca cat gaa gag att atg 3460 Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg ValVal Ser His Glu Glu Ile Met 1135 1140 1145 cag gca gcc aag gag gcc aacata cac cac ttc atc gag aca ctc cct 3508 Gln Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn IleHis His Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu Pro 1150 1155 1160 gag aaa tac aac acc agagta gga gac aaa gga acc cag ctc tct ggt 3556 Glu Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg ValGly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly 1165 1170 1175 1180 ggc cag aaa cagcgc att gcc ata gct cgc gct ctt gtt aga cag cct 3604 Gly Gln Lys Gln ArgIle Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro 1185 1190 1195 cat att ttgctt ttg gat gaa gct aca tca gct ctg gat aca gaa agt 3652 His Ile Leu LeuLeu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser 1200 1205 1210 gaa aaggtt gtc caa gaa gcc ctg gac aaa gcc aga gaa ggc cgc acc 3700 Glu Lys ValVal Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr 1215 1220 1225 tgcatt gtg atc gcc cac cgc ttg tcc acc atc cag aat gca gat tta 3748 Cys IleVal Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu 1230 1235 1240ata gtg gtg ttt cag aat ggc aaa gtc aag gag cat ggc aca cat caa 3796 IleVal Val Phe Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln 1245 12501255 1260 cag ctg ctg gcc cag aaa ggc atc tat ttt tcc atg gtc agt gtccag 3844 Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln1265 1270 1275 gct gga gca aag cgc tagtgaactg tggccatatg agctgttaaatattttttaa 3899 Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg 1280 tatttgtgtt aaaacatggcatttaatcaa agttaaaagg tgagcactta ctggaaaaac 3959 tatgtagaac tacctgtttaacatttcttg ctgcaactga agatcattcc accaagttca 4019 gagtcttcag attttataattaaaggaacc aaaagaaaca ttatctgatg gaataaaata 4079 ctggtgttaa ttgcattataaaattataga gtaattcaaa gtagattttg ttaataaatt 4139 gtataatttt tgtttatattttatttgtaa cttactgctt tgctgaaaga ttatagaagt 4199 ggtaaaaagt actgaatgtttgaataaagt gctagctata ataaaactaa acttttatat 4259 caaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa4279 23 1281 PRT Canis familiaris 23 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys GlySer Ala Glu Lys Asn Phe Trp 1 5 10 15 Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys LysAsn Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met PheArg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Arg 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr MetAla Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Ala 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val PheGly Asn Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg AsnLys Thr Phe Pro Val Ile Ile Asn Glu 85 90 95 Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr GlnHis Phe Ile Asn His Leu Glu Glu Glu 100 105 110 Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala TyrTyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu 115 120 125 Val Ala Ala Tyr IleGln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg 130 135 140 Gln Ile Leu LysIle Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln 145 150 155 160 Glu IleGly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg 165 170 175 LeuThr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile 180 185 190Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val 195 200205 Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser 210215 220 Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser225 230 235 240 Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly AlaVal Ala 245 250 255 Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala PheGly Gly Gln 260 265 270 Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu GluGlu Ala Lys Gly 275 280 285 Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn IleSer Ile Gly Ala Ala 290 295 300 Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala LeuAla Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr 305 310 315 320 Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu TyrSer Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val 325 330 335 Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile GlyAla Phe Ser Ile Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro 340 345 350 Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe AlaAsn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe 355 360 365 Lys Ile Ile Asp AsnLys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly 370 375 380 His Lys Pro AspAsn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn Val His 385 390 395 400 Phe SerTyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn 405 410 415 LeuLys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly 420 425 430Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro 435 440445 Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn 450455 460 Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val465 470 475 480 Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly ArgGlu Asn 485 490 495 Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu AlaAsn Ala Tyr 500 505 510 Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp ThrLeu Val Gly Glu 515 520 525 Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys GlnArg Ile Ala Ile Ala 530 535 540 Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile LeuLeu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr 545 550 555 560 Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser GluAla Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp 565 570 575 Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg ThrThr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser 580 585 590 Thr Val Arg Asn Ala AspVal Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile 595 600 605 Val Glu Lys Gly AsnHis Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr 610 615 620 Phe Lys Leu ValThr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu Glu 625 630 635 640 Asn AlaThr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser 645 650 655 ProLys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg 660 665 670Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Gly Thr Lys Glu 675 680685 Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu Lys 690695 700 Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Ile Phe Cys Ala705 710 715 720 Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile PheSer Arg 725 730 735 Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu ThrLys Arg Gln 740 745 750 Asn Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu Val LeuGly Ile Ile Ser 755 760 765 Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr PheGly Lys Ala Gly Glu 770 775 780 Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met ValPhe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg 785 790 795 800 Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp AspPro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu 805 810 815 Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn AspAla Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly 820 825 830 Ser Arg Leu Ala Val IleThr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly 835 840 845 Ile Ile Ile Ser LeuIle Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu 850 855 860 Ala Ile Val ProIle Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met 865 870 875 880 Leu SerGly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly 885 890 895 LysIle Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu 900 905 910Thr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val 915 920925 Pro Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Val Ser Phe 930935 940 Ser Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg945 950 955 960 Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn Phe GlnAsp Val 965 970 975 Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met AlaVal Gly Gln 980 985 990 Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala LysVal Ser Ala Ala 995 1000 1005 His Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser ProLeu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser 1010 1015 1020 Pro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn ThrLeu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Asn 1025 1030 1035 1040 Glu Val Val Phe AsnTyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val Leu Gln 1045 1050 1055 Gly Leu SerLeu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly 1060 1065 1070 SerSer Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg Phe 1075 10801085 Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys1090 1095 1100 His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly Ile ValSer Gln 1105 1110 1115 1120 Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala GluAsn Ile Ala Tyr Gly 1125 1130 1135 Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser His GluGlu Ile Met Gln Ala Ala Lys 1140 1145 1150 Glu Ala Asn Ile His His PheIle Glu Thr Leu Pro Glu Lys Tyr Asn 1155 1160 1165 Thr Arg Val Gly AspLys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln 1170 1175 1180 Arg Ile AlaIle Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu 1185 1190 1195 1200Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val 12051210 1215 Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile ValIle 1220 1225 1230 Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu IleVal Val Phe 1235 1240 1245 Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr HisGln Gln Leu Leu Ala 1250 1255 1260 Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met ValSer Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys 1265 1270 1275 1280 Arg 24 4279 DNA Canisfamiliaris CDS (17)...(3859) 24 ggagcgcgag gtcggg atg gat cct gaa ggaggc cgt aag ggg agt gca gag 52 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys Gly SerAla Glu 1 5 10 aag aac ttc tgg aaa atg ggc aaa aaa agt aaa aaa aaa gagaag aaa 100 Lys Asn Phe Trp Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Lys Glu LysLys 15 20 25 gaa aag aaa cca act gtc agc acg ttt gca atg ttt cgc tat tcaaat 148 Glu Lys Lys Pro Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn30 35 40 tgg ctt gat agg ttg tat atg ttg gtg ggg aca atg gct gcc atc atc196 Trp Leu Asp Arg Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile Ile 4550 55 60 cat gga gct gca ctc cct ctc atg atg ctg gtt ttt gga aac atg aca244 His Gly Ala Ala Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr 6570 75 gat agc ttt gca aat gca gga att tca aga aac aaa act ttt cca gtt292 Asp Ser Phe Ala Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro Val 8085 90 ata att aat gaa agt att acg aac aat aca caa cat ttc atc aac cat340 Ile Ile Asn Glu Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn His 95100 105 ctg gag gag gaa atg acc acg tat gcc tat tat tac agt ggg atc ggt388 Leu Glu Glu Glu Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly 110115 120 gct ggc gtg ctg gtg gct gct tac atc cag gtt tca ttc tgg tgc ctg436 Ala Gly Val Leu Val Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu 125130 135 140 gca gca gga aga cag ata ctc aaa att aga aaa caa ttt ttt catgct 484 Ala Ala Gly Arg Gln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala145 150 155 atc atg cga cag gag att ggc tgg ttt gac gtg cat gac gtt ggggag 532 Ile Met Arg Gln Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu160 165 170 ctt aac acc cgg ctc aca gac gat gtc tcc aaa atc aat gaa ggaatt 580 Leu Asn Thr Arg Leu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile175 180 185 ggc gac aaa att gga atg ttc ttt caa tca ata gca aca ttt ttcacc 628 Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr190 195 200 ggt ttt ata gtg ggg ttt aca cgt ggt tgg aag cta acc ctt gtgatt 676 Gly Phe Ile Val Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile205 210 215 220 ttg gcc atc agc cct gtt ctt gga ctt tca gcc gcc atc tgggca aag 724 Leu Ala Ile Ser Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp AlaLys 225 230 235 ata cta tct tca ttt act gat aaa gaa ctc ttg gcc tat gcaaaa gct 772 Ile Leu Ser Ser Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala LysAla 240 245 250 gga gca gta gct gaa gaa gtc tta gca gca atc aga act gtgatt gcc 820 Gly Ala Val Ala Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val IleAla 255 260 265 ttt gga gga caa aag aaa gaa ctt gaa agg tac aac aaa aattta gaa 868 Phe Gly Gly Gln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn LeuGlu 270 275 280 gaa gct aaa gga att ggg ata aag aaa gct atc acg gcc aacatt tct 916 Glu Ala Lys Gly Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn IleSer 285 290 295 300 att ggt gcc gct ttc tta ttg atc tat gca tca tat gctctg gct ttc 964 Ile Gly Ala Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala LeuAla Phe 305 310 315 tgg tat ggg acc tcc ttg gtc ctc tcc agt gaa tat tctatt gga caa 1012 Trp Tyr Gly Thr Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu Tyr Ser IleGly Gln 320 325 330 gta ctc act gtc ttc ttt tct gta tta att ggg gct tttagt att gga 1060 Val Leu Thr Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe SerIle Gly 335 340 345 cag gca tcc cca agc att gaa gca ttt gca aac gca agagga gca gct 1108 Gln Ala Ser Pro Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg GlyAla Ala 350 355 360 tat gaa atc ttc aag ata att gac aat aaa cca agc attgac agc tat 1156 Tyr Glu Ile Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile AspSer Tyr 365 370 375 380 tcg aag agt gga cat aaa cca gat aat att aag ggaaat ttg gaa ttc 1204 Ser Lys Ser Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly AsnLeu Glu Phe 385 390 395 aaa aat gtt cac ttc agt tac cct tct cga aaa gaagtt aag atc tta 1252 Lys Asn Val His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu ValLys Ile Leu 400 405 410 aag ggt ctc aac ctg aag gtt cag agt ggg cag acagtg gcg ctg gtt 1300 Lys Gly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr ValAla Leu Val 415 420 425 ggg aac agt ggc tgc ggg aag agc acg acc gtg cagctg atg cag agg 1348 Gly Asn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln LeuMet Gln Arg 430 435 440 ctc tat gac ccc aca gat ggc atg gtc tgt att gatgga cag gac att 1396 Leu Tyr Asp Pro Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp GlyGln Asp Ile 445 450 455 460 agg acc ata aat gta agg cat ctt cgg gaa attact ggt gtg gtg agt 1444 Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile ThrGly Val Val Ser 465 470 475 cag gag cct gtg ttg ttt gcc acc acg ata gctgaa aac att cgc tat 1492 Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala GluAsn Ile Arg Tyr 480 485 490 ggc cgc gaa aat gtc acc atg gat gag att gagaaa gct gtt aag gaa 1540 Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu LysAla Val Lys Glu 495 500 505 gcc aat gcc tat gat ttt atc atg aaa cta cctaat aaa ttt gac act 1588 Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro AsnLys Phe Asp Thr 510 515 520 ctg gtt gga gag aga ggg gcc cag ctg agt ggtgga cag aaa cag aga 1636 Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly GlyGln Lys Gln Arg 525 530 535 540 atc gcc att gct cgg gcc ctg gtt cgc aacccc aag att ctt ctg ctg 1684 Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn ProLys Ile Leu Leu Leu 545 550 555 gat gag gca acg tca gct ctg gac act gaaagt gaa gca gtg gtt cag 1732 Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu SerGlu Ala Val Val Gln 560 565 570 gtg gcc ctg gat aag gcc aga aaa ggc cggact acc att gtg ata gct 1780 Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg ThrThr Ile Val Ile Ala 575 580 585 cat cgt ttg tct aca gtt cgt aat gcc gatgtc att gct ggt ttt gat 1828 His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp ValIle Ala Gly Phe Asp 590 595 600 gat gga gtc att gtg gag aaa gga aat catgat gaa ctc atg aaa gag 1876 Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His AspGlu Leu Met Lys Glu 605 610 615 620 aag ggc att tac ttc aaa ctt gtc acaatg cag aca aga gga aat gaa 1924 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Thr MetGln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu 625 630 635 att gag tta gaa aat gcc act ggt gaatcc aaa agt gaa agt gat gcc 1972 Ile Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu SerLys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala 640 645 650 ttg gaa atg tct cca aaa gat tca gggtcc agt tta ata aaa aga aga 2020 Leu Glu Met Ser Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly SerSer Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg 655 660 665 tca act cgc agg agt ata cat gca ccacaa ggc caa gac aga aag ctt 2068 Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Ile His Ala Pro GlnGly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu 670 675 680 ggt aca aaa gag gac ttg aat gag aatgta cct cca gtt tcc ttc tgg 2116 Gly Thr Lys Glu Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn ValPro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp 685 690 695 700 agg att ctg aag ctg aac tca actgaa tgg cct tat ttt gtg gtt ggt 2164 Arg Ile Leu Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr GluTrp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly 705 710 715 ata ttt tgt gct att ata aac ggaggc ctg caa cca gca ttt tca ata 2212 Ile Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly GlyLeu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile 720 725 730 ata ttt tca agg att ata ggg atcttt acc cga gat gag gat cct gaa 2260 Ile Phe Ser Arg Ile Ile Gly Ile PheThr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu 735 740 745 aca aaa cga cag aat agt aac atgttt tct gta ttg ttt cta gtc ctt 2308 Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser Asn Met PheSer Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu 750 755 760 gga att att tct ttt att aca tttttc ctc cag ggc ttc aca ttt ggc 2356 Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile Thr Phe PheLeu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly 765 770 775 780 aaa gct ggg gag atc ctc actaag cgg ctt cga tac atg gtt ttc aga 2404 Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu Thr LysArg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg 785 790 795 tcc atg ctg aga cag gat gtcagc tgg ttt gat gac cct aaa aac acc 2452 Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp Val SerTrp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr 800 805 810 act gga gca ttg aca acc aggctt gcc aat gat gcg gct caa gtt aaa 2500 Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr Arg LeuAla Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys 815 820 825 ggg gct ata ggt tcc agg cttgct gtc att acc cag aat ata gca aat 2548 Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser Arg Leu AlaVal Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn 830 835 840 ctt ggg aca ggc att att atatcc tta atc tat ggt tgg caa tta aca 2596 Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile Ile SerLeu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr 845 850 855 860 ctt tta ctc tta gca attgta ccc atc att gca ata gca gga gtt gtt 2644 Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile ValPro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val 865 870 875 gaa atg aaa atg ttg tctgga caa gca ctg aaa gat aag aaa gag cta 2692 Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser GlyGln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu 880 885 890 gaa gga gct ggg aag attgct aca gaa gcc atc gaa aac ttc cga act 2740 Glu Gly Ala Gly Lys Ile AlaThr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr 895 900 905 gtt gtt tct ttg act cgggag cag aag ttt gaa tac atg tat gca cag 2788 Val Val Ser Leu Thr Arg GluGln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln 910 915 920 agt ttg caa gta cca tacaga aac tct ttg agg aaa gca cac atc ttc 2836 Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr ArgAsn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe 925 930 935 940 ggg gtc tca ttt tctatc acc cag gca atg atg tat ttt tcc tat gct 2884 Gly Val Ser Phe Ser IleThr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala 945 950 955 ggc tgt ttc cgg tttggt gcc tac ttg gtg gca aat gag ttc atg aac 2932 Gly Cys Phe Arg Phe GlyAla Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn 960 965 970 ttt cag gat gtt cttttg gta ttc tca gct att gtc ttt ggt gcc atg 2980 Phe Gln Asp Val Leu LeuVal Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met 975 980 985 gca gtg ggg cag gtcagt tca ttt gct cct gac tat gcc aaa gcc aaa 3028 Ala Val Gly Gln Val SerSer Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys 990 995 1000 gta tca gca gcc cacgtc atc atg atc att gaa aaa agc cct ctg att 3076 Val Ser Ala Ala His ValIle Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile 1005 1010 1015 1020 gac agc tacagc cct cac ggc ctc aag cca aat acg ttg gaa gga aat 3124 Asp Ser Tyr SerPro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn 1025 1030 1035 gtg acattt aat gag gtc gtg ttc aac tat ccc act cga cca gac atc 3172 Val Thr PheAsn Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile 1040 1045 1050 cccgtg ctc cag ggg ctg agc ctc gag gtg aag aag ggc cag acg ctg 3220 Pro ValLeu Gln Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu 1055 1060 1065gcc ctc gta ggt agc agt ggc tgt ggg aag agc aca gtt gtt cag ctc 3268 AlaLeu Val Gly Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu 1070 10751080 cta gag cgc ttc tat gac ccc ttg gct ggt tca gtg cta att gat ggc3316 Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp Gly1085 1090 1095 1100 aaa gag ata aag cac ctg aat gtc cag tgg ctc cga gcacac ctg ggc 3364 Lys Glu Ile Lys His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala HisLeu Gly 1105 1110 1115 atc gtg tct cag gag ccc atc ctg ttt gac tgc agcatt gcc gag aac 3412 Ile Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser IleAla Glu Asn 1120 1125 1130 att gcc tat gga gac aac agc cgg gtc gta tcacat gaa gag att atg 3460 Ile Ala Tyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser HisGlu Glu Ile Met 1135 1140 1145 cag gca gcc aag gag gcc aac ata cac cacttc atc gag aca ctc cct 3508 Gln Ala Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His His PheIle Glu Thr Leu Pro 1150 1155 1160 gag aaa tac aac acc aga gta gga gacaaa gga acc cag ctc tct ggt 3556 Glu Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg Val Gly Asp LysGly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly 1165 1170 1175 1180 ggc cag aaa cag cgc att gccata gct cgc gct ctt gtt aga cag cct 3604 Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala IleAla Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro 1185 1190 1195 cat att ttg ctt ttg gatgaa gct aca tca gct ctg gat aca gaa agt 3652 His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp GluAla Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser 1200 1205 1210 gaa aag gtt gtc caagaa gcc ctg gac aaa gcc aga gaa ggc cgc acc 3700 Glu Lys Val Val Gln GluAla Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr 1215 1220 1225 tgc att gtg atcgcc cac cgc ttg tcc acc atc cag aat gca gat tta 3748 Cys Ile Val Ile AlaHis Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu 1230 1235 1240 ata gtg gtgttt cag aat ggc aaa gtc aag gag cat ggc aca cat caa 3796 Ile Val Val PheGln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln 1245 1250 1255 1260 cagctg ctg gcc cag aaa ggc atc tat ttt tcc atg gtc agt gtc cag 3844 Gln LeuLeu Ala Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln 1265 1270 1275gct gga gca aag cgc tagtgaactg tggccatatg agctgttaaa tattttttaa 3899 AlaGly Ala Lys Arg 1280 tatttgtgtt aaaacatggc atttaatcaa agttaaaaggtgagcactta ctggaaaaac 3959 tatgtagaac tacctgttta acatttcttg ctgcaactgaagatcattcc accaagttca 4019 gagtcttcag attttataat taaaggaacc aaaagaaacattatctgatg gaataaaata 4079 ctggtgttaa ttgcattata aaattataga gtaattcaaagtagattttg ttaataaatt 4139 gtataatttt tgtttatatt ttatttgtaa cttactgctttgctgaaaga ttatagaagt 4199 ggtaaaaagt actgaatgtt tgaataaagt gctagctataataaaactaa acttttatat 4259 caaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa 4279 25 1281 PRT Canisfamiliaris 25 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys Gly Ser Ala Glu Lys AsnPhe Trp 1 5 10 15 Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys GluLys Lys Pro 20 25 30 Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn TrpLeu Asp Arg 35 40 45 Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile Ile HisGly Ala Ala 50 55 60 Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr AspSer Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro ValIle Ile Asn Glu 85 90 95 Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn HisLeu Glu Glu Glu 100 105 110 Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly IleGly Ala Gly Val Leu 115 120 125 Val Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe TrpCys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg 130 135 140 Gln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln PhePhe His Ala Ile Met Arg Gln 145 150 155 160 Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp ValHis Asp Val Gly Glu Leu Asn Thr Arg 165 170 175 Leu Thr Asp Asp Val SerLys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile Gly Asp Lys Ile 180 185 190 Gly Met Phe Phe GlnSer Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe Ile Val 195 200 205 Gly Phe Thr ArgGly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser 210 215 220 Pro Val LeuGly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser 225 230 235 240 PheThr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala 245 250 255Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln 260 265270 Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Gly 275280 285 Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala290 295 300 Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr GlyThr 305 310 315 320 Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu Tyr Ser Ile Gly Gln ValLeu Thr Val 325 330 335 Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Ile GlyGln Ala Ser Pro 340 345 350 Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly AlaAla Tyr Glu Ile Phe 355 360 365 Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile AspSer Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly 370 375 380 His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly AsnLeu Glu Phe Lys Asn Val His 385 390 395 400 Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg LysGlu Val Lys Ile Leu Lys Gly Leu Asn 405 410 415 Leu Lys Val Gln Ser GlyGln Thr Val Ala Leu Val Gly Asn Ser Gly 420 425 430 Cys Gly Lys Ser ThrThr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg Leu Tyr Asp Pro 435 440 445 Thr Asp Gly MetVal Cys Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn 450 455 460 Val Arg HisLeu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly Val Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val 465 470 475 480 LeuPhe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn 485 490 495Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr 500 505510 Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu 515520 525 Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala530 535 540 Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu AlaThr 545 550 555 560 Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln ValAla Leu Asp 565 570 575 Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile AlaHis Arg Leu Ser 580 585 590 Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly PheAsp Asp Gly Val Ile 595 600 605 Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu MetLys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr 610 615 620 Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr ArgGly Asn Glu Ile Glu Leu Glu 625 630 635 640 Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser LysSer Glu Ser Asp Ala Leu Glu Met Ser 645 650 655 Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly SerSer Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg Ser Thr Arg Arg 660 665 670 Ser Ile His Ala ProGln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu Gly Thr Lys Glu 675 680 685 Asp Leu Asn GluAsn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp Arg Ile Leu Lys 690 695 700 Leu Asn SerThr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val Val Gly Ile Phe Cys Ala 705 710 715 720 IleIle Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile Phe Ser Arg 725 730 735Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln 740 745750 Asn Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser 755760 765 Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu770 775 780 Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met LeuArg 785 790 795 800 Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr ThrGly Ala Leu 805 810 815 Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val LysGly Ala Ile Gly 820 825 830 Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile AlaAsn Leu Gly Thr Gly 835 840 845 Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp GlnLeu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu 850 855 860 Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile AlaGly Val Val Glu Met Lys Met 865 870 875 880 Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu LysAsp Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Gly Ala Gly 885 890 895 Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu AlaIle Glu Asn Phe Arg Thr Val Val Ser Leu 900 905 910 Thr Arg Glu Gln LysPhe Glu Tyr Met Tyr Ala Gln Ser Leu Gln Val 915 920 925 Pro Tyr Arg AsnSer Leu Arg Lys Ala His Ile Phe Gly Val Ser Phe 930 935 940 Ser Ile ThrGln Ala Met Met Tyr Phe Ser Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg 945 950 955 960 PheGly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala Asn Glu Phe Met Asn Phe Gln Asp Val 965 970 975Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln 980 985990 Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Ser Ala Ala 9951000 1005 His Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser TyrSer 1010 1015 1020 Pro His Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn ValThr Phe Asn 1025 1030 1035 1040 Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg ProAsp Ile Pro Val Leu Gln 1045 1050 1055 Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys LysGly Gln Thr Leu Ala Leu Val Gly 1060 1065 1070 Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly LysSer Thr Val Val Gln Leu Leu Glu Arg Phe 1075 1080 1085 Tyr Asp Pro LeuAla Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys 1090 1095 1100 His LeuAsn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly Ile Val Ser Gln 1105 1110 11151120 Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly1125 1130 1135 Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser His Glu Glu Ile Met Gln AlaAla Lys 1140 1145 1150 Glu Ala Asn Ile His His Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu ProGlu Lys Tyr Asn 1155 1160 1165 Thr Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln LeuSer Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln 1170 1175 1180 Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala LeuVal Arg Gln Pro His Ile Leu Leu 1185 1190 1195 1200 Leu Asp Glu Ala ThrSer Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Lys Val Val 1205 1210 1215 Gln Glu AlaLeu Asp Lys Ala Arg Glu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile 1220 1225 1230 AlaHis Arg Leu Ser Thr Ile Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe 1235 12401245 Gln Asn Gly Lys Val Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala1250 1255 1260 Gln Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala GlyAla Lys 1265 1270 1275 1280 Arg 26 4279 DNA Canis familiaris CDS(17)...(3859) 26 ggagcgcgag gtcggg atg gat cct gaa gga ggc cgt aag gggagt gca gag 52 Met Asp Pro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys Gly Ser Ala Glu 1 5 10aag aac ttc tgg aaa atg ggc aaa aaa agt aaa aaa aaa gag aag aaa 100 LysAsn Phe Trp Lys Met Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys 15 20 25 gaaaag aaa cca act gtc agc acg ttt gca atg ttt cgc tat tca aat 148 Glu LysLys Pro Thr Val Ser Thr Phe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn 30 35 40 tgg cttgat agg ttg tat atg ttg gtg ggg aca atg gct gcc atc atc 196 Trp Leu AspArg Leu Tyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile Ile 45 50 55 60 cat ggagct gca ctc cct ctc atg atg ctg gtt ttt gga aac atg aca 244 His Gly AlaAla Leu Pro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr 65 70 75 gat agc tttgca aat gca gga att tca aga aac aaa act ttt cca gtt 292 Asp Ser Phe AlaAsn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro Val 80 85 90 ata att aat gaaagt att acg aac aat aca caa cat ttc atc aac cat 340 Ile Ile Asn Glu SerIle Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn His 95 100 105 ctg gag gag gaaatg acc acg tat gcc tat tat tac agt ggg atc ggt 388 Leu Glu Glu Glu MetThr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly 110 115 120 gct ggc gtg ctggtg gct gct tac atc cag gtt tca ttc tgg tgc ctg 436 Ala Gly Val Leu ValAla Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu 125 130 135 140 gca gca ggaaga cag ata ctc aaa att aga aaa caa ttt ttt cat gct 484 Ala Ala Gly ArgGln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala 145 150 155 atc atg cgacag gag att ggc tgg ttt gac gtg cat gac gtt ggg gag 532 Ile Met Arg GlnGlu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu 160 165 170 ctt aac acccgg ctc aca gac gat gtc tcc aaa atc aat gaa gga att 580 Leu Asn Thr ArgLeu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly Ile 175 180 185 ggc gac aaaatt gga atg ttc ttt caa tca ata gca aca ttt ttc acc 628 Gly Asp Lys IleGly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe Phe Thr 190 195 200 ggt ttt atagtg ggg ttt aca cgt ggt tgg aag cta acc ctt gtg att 676 Gly Phe Ile ValGly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr Leu Val Ile 205 210 215 220 ttg gccatc agc cct gtt ctt gga ctt tca gcc gcc atc tgg gca aag 724 Leu Ala IleSer Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala Ile Trp Ala Lys 225 230 235 ata ctatct tca ttt act gat aaa gaa ctc ttg gcc tat gca aaa gct 772 Ile Leu SerSer Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu Leu Ala Tyr Ala Lys Ala 240 245 250 gga gcagta gct gaa gaa gtc tta gca gca atc aga act gtg att gcc 820 Gly Ala ValAla Glu Glu Val Leu Ala Ala Ile Arg Thr Val Ile Ala 255 260 265 ttt ggagga caa aag aaa gaa ctt gaa agg tac aac aaa aat tta gaa 868 Phe Gly GlyGln Lys Lys Glu Leu Glu Arg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu 270 275 280 gaa gctaaa gga att ggg ata aag aaa gct atc acg gcc aac att tct 916 Glu Ala LysGly Ile Gly Ile Lys Lys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser 285 290 295 300 attggt gcc gct ttc tta ttg atc tat gca tca tat gct ctg gct ttc 964 Ile GlyAla Ala Phe Leu Leu Ile Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe 305 310 315 tggtat ggg acc tcc ttg gtc ctc tcc agt gaa tat act att gga caa 1012 Trp TyrGly Thr Ser Leu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu Tyr Thr Ile Gly Gln 320 325 330 gtactc act gtc ttc ttt tct gta tta att ggg gct ttt agt att gga 1060 Val LeuThr Val Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Ile Gly 335 340 345 caggca tcc cca agc att gaa gca ttt gca aac gca aga gga gca gct 1108 Gln AlaSer Pro Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala 350 355 360 tatgaa atc ttc aag ata att gac aat aaa cca agc att gac agc tat 1156 Tyr GluIle Phe Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr 365 370 375 380tcg aag agt gga cat aaa cca gat aat att aag gga aat ttg gaa ttc 1204 SerLys Ser Gly His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe 385 390 395aaa aat gtt cac ttc agt tac cct tct cga aaa gaa gtt aag atc tta 1252 LysAsn Val His Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu 400 405 410aag ggt ctc aac ctg aag gtt cag agt ggg cag aca gtg gcg ctg gtt 1300 LysGly Leu Asn Leu Lys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu Val 415 420 425ggg aac agt ggc tgc ggg aag agc acg acc gtg cag ctg atg cag agg 1348 GlyAsn Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met Gln Arg 430 435 440ctc tat gac ccc aca gat ggc atg gtc tgt att gat gga cag gac att 1396 LeuTyr Asp Pro Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly Gln Asp Ile 445 450 455460 agg acc ata aat gta agg cat ctt cgg gaa att act ggt gtg gtg agt 1444Arg Thr Ile Asn Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr Gly Val Val Ser 465 470475 cag gag cct gtg ttg ttt gcc acc acg ata gct gaa aac att cgc tat 1492Gln Glu Pro Val Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Arg Tyr 480 485490 ggc cgc gaa aat gtc acc atg gat gag att gag aaa gct gtt aag gaa 1540Gly Arg Glu Asn Val Thr Met Asp Glu Ile Glu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu 495 500505 gcc aat gcc tat gat ttt atc atg aaa cta cct aat aaa ttt gac act 1588Ala Asn Ala Tyr Asp Phe Ile Met Lys Leu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp Thr 510 515520 ctg gtt gga gag aga ggg gcc cag ctg agt ggt gga cag aaa cag aga 1636Leu Val Gly Glu Arg Gly Ala Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg 525 530535 540 atc gcc att gct cgg gcc ctg gtt cgc aac ccc aag att ctt ctg ctg1684 Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu 545550 555 gat gag gca acg tca gct ctg gac act gaa agt gaa gca gtg gtt cag1732 Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln 560565 570 gtg gcc ctg gat aag gcc aga aaa ggc cgg act acc att gtg ata gct1780 Val Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala 575580 585 cat cgt ttg tct aca gtt cgt aat gcc gat gtc att gct ggt ttt gat1828 His Arg Leu Ser Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp 590595 600 gat gga gtc att gtg gag aaa gga aat cat gat gaa ctc atg aaa gag1876 Asp Gly Val Ile Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu 605610 615 620 aag ggc att tac ttc aaa ctt gtc aca atg cag aca aga gga aatgaa 1924 Lys Gly Ile Tyr Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu625 630 635 att gag tta gaa aat gcc act ggt gaa tcc aaa agt gaa agt gatgcc 1972 Ile Glu Leu Glu Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala640 645 650 ttg gaa atg tct cca aaa gat tca ggg tcc agt tta ata aaa agaaga 2020 Leu Glu Met Ser Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg Arg655 660 665 tca act cgc agg agt ata cat gca cca caa ggc caa gac aga aagctt 2068 Ser Thr Arg Arg Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg Lys Leu670 675 680 ggt aca aaa gag gac ttg aat gag aat gta cct cca gtt tcc ttctgg 2116 Gly Thr Lys Glu Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val Ser Phe Trp685 690 695 700 agg att ctg aag ctg aac tca act gaa tgg cct tat ttt gtggtt ggt 2164 Arg Ile Leu Lys Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr Phe Val ValGly 705 710 715 ata ttt tgt gct att ata aac gga ggc ctg caa cca gca ttttca ata 2212 Ile Phe Cys Ala Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu Gln Pro Ala Phe SerIle 720 725 730 ata ttt tca agg att ata ggg atc ttt acc cga gat gag gatcct gaa 2260 Ile Phe Ser Arg Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe Thr Arg Asp Glu Asp ProGlu 735 740 745 aca aaa cga cag aat agt aac atg ttt tct gta ttg ttt ctagtc ctt 2308 Thr Lys Arg Gln Asn Ser Asn Met Phe Ser Val Leu Phe Leu ValLeu 750 755 760 gga att att tct ttt att aca ttt ttc ctc cag ggc ttc acattt ggc 2356 Gly Ile Ile Ser Phe Ile Thr Phe Phe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr PheGly 765 770 775 780 aaa gct ggg gag atc ctc act aag cgg ctt cga tac atggtt ttc aga 2404 Lys Ala Gly Glu Ile Leu Thr Lys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met ValPhe Arg 785 790 795 tcc atg ctg aga cag gat gtc agc tgg ttt gat gac cctaaa aac acc 2452 Ser Met Leu Arg Gln Asp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro LysAsn Thr 800 805 810 act gga gca ttg aca acc agg ctt gcc aat gat gcg gctcaa gtt aaa 2500 Thr Gly Ala Leu Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala GlnVal Lys 815 820 825 ggg gct ata ggt tcc agg ctt gct gtc att acc cag aatata gca aat 2548 Gly Ala Ile Gly Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn IleAla Asn 830 835 840 ctt ggg aca ggc att att ata tcc tta atc tat ggt tggcaa tta aca 2596 Leu Gly Thr Gly Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp GlnLeu Thr 845 850 855 860 ctt tta ctc tta gca att gta ccc atc att gca atagca gga gtt gtt 2644 Leu Leu Leu Leu Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile AlaGly Val Val 865 870 875 gaa atg aaa atg ttg tct gga caa gca ctg aaa gataag aaa gag cta 2692 Glu Met Lys Met Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp LysLys Glu Leu 880 885 890 gaa gga gct ggg aag att gct aca gaa gcc atc gaaaac ttc cga act 2740 Glu Gly Ala Gly Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu AsnPhe Arg Thr 895 900 905 gtt gtt tct ttg act cgg gag cag aag ttt gaa tacatg tat gca cag 2788 Val Val Ser Leu Thr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr MetTyr Ala Gln 910 915 920 agt ttg caa gta cca tac aga aac tct ttg agg aaagca cac atc ttc 2836 Ser Leu Gln Val Pro Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys AlaHis Ile Phe 925 930 935 940 ggg gtc tca ttt tct atc acc cag gca atg atgtat ttt tcc tat gct 2884 Gly Val Ser Phe Ser Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met TyrPhe Ser Tyr Ala 945 950 955 ggc tgt ttc cgg ttt ggt gcc tac ttg gtg gcaaat gag ttc atg aac 2932 Gly Cys Phe Arg Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val Ala AsnGlu Phe Met Asn 960 965 970 ttt cag gat gtt ctt ttg gta ttc tca gct attgtc ttt ggt gcc atg 2980 Phe Gln Asp Val Leu Leu Val Phe Ser Ala Ile ValPhe Gly Ala Met 975 980 985 gca gtg ggg cag gtc agt tca ttt gct cct gactat gcc aaa gcc aaa 3028 Ala Val Gly Gln Val Ser Ser Phe Ala Pro Asp TyrAla Lys Ala Lys 990 995 1000 gta tca gca gcc cac gtc atc atg atc att gaaaaa agc cct ctg att 3076 Val Ser Ala Ala His Val Ile Met Ile Ile Glu LysSer Pro Leu Ile 1005 1010 1015 1020 gac agc tac agc cct cac ggc ctc aagcca aat acg ttg gaa gga aat 3124 Asp Ser Tyr Ser Pro His Gly Leu Lys ProAsn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn 1025 1030 1035 gtg aca ttt aat gag gtc gtg ttcaac tat ccc act cga cca gac atc 3172 Val Thr Phe Asn Glu Val Val Phe AsnTyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile 1040 1045 1050 ccc gtg ctc cag ggg ctg agcctc gag gtg aag aag ggc cag acg ctg 3220 Pro Val Leu Gln Gly Leu Ser LeuGlu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu 1055 1060 1065 gcc ctc gta ggt agc agtggc tgt ggg aag agc aca gtt gtt cag ctc 3268 Ala Leu Val Gly Ser Ser GlyCys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val Gln Leu 1070 1075 1080 cta gag cgc ttc tatgac ccc ttg gct ggt tca gtg cta att gat ggc 3316 Leu Glu Arg Phe Tyr AspPro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val Leu Ile Asp Gly 1085 1090 1095 1100 aaa gag ataaag cac ctg aat gtc cag tgg ctc cga gca cac ctg ggc 3364 Lys Glu Ile LysHis Leu Asn Val Gln Trp Leu Arg Ala His Leu Gly 1105 1110 1115 atc gtgtct cag gag ccc atc ctg ttt gac tgc agc att gcc gag aac 3412 Ile Val SerGln Glu Pro Ile Leu Phe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn 1120 1125 1130 attgcc tat gga gac aac agc cgg gtc gta tca cat gaa gag att gtg 3460 Ile AlaTyr Gly Asp Asn Ser Arg Val Val Ser His Glu Glu Ile Val 1135 1140 1145cag gca gcc aag gag gcc aac ata cac cac ttc atc gag aca ctc cct 3508 GlnAla Ala Lys Glu Ala Asn Ile His His Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu Pro 1150 11551160 gag aaa tac aac acc aga gta gga gac aaa gga acc cag ctc tct ggt3556 Glu Lys Tyr Asn Thr Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly1165 1170 1175 1180 ggc cag aaa cag cgc att gcc ata gct cgc gct ctt gttaga cag cct 3604 Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val ArgGln Pro 1185 1190 1195 cat att ttg ctt ttg gat gaa gct aca tca gct ctggat aca gaa agt 3652 His Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu AspThr Glu Ser 1200 1205 1210 gaa aag gtt gtc caa gaa gcc ctg gac aaa gccaga gaa ggc cgc acc 3700 Glu Lys Val Val Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala ArgGlu Gly Arg Thr 1215 1220 1225 tgc att gtg atc gcc cac cgc ttg tcc accatc cag aat gca gat tta 3748 Cys Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser Thr IleGln Asn Ala Asp Leu 1230 1235 1240 ata gtg gtg ttt cag aat ggc aaa gtcaag gag cat ggc aca cat caa 3796 Ile Val Val Phe Gln Asn Gly Lys Val LysGlu His Gly Thr His Gln 1245 1250 1255 1260 cag ctg ctg gcc cag aaa ggcatc tat ttt tcc atg gtc agt gtc cag 3844 Gln Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Gly IleTyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln 1265 1270 1275 gct gga gca aag cgctagtgaactg tggccatatg agctgttaaa tattttttaa 3899 Ala Gly Ala Lys Arg1280 tatttgtgtt aaaacatggc atttaatcaa agttaaaagg tgagcactta ctggaaaaac3959 tatgtagaac tacctgttta acatttcttg ctgcaactga agatcattcc accaagttca4019 gagtcttcag attttataat taaaggaacc aaaagaaaca ttatctgatg gaataaaata4079 ctggtgttaa ttgcattata aaattataga gtaattcaaa gtagattttg ttaataaatt4139 gtataatttt tgtttatatt ttatttgtaa cttactgctt tgctgaaaga ttatagaagt4199 ggtaaaaagt actgaatgtt tgaataaagt gctagctata ataaaactaa acttttatat4259 caaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa 4279 27 1281 PRT Canis familiaris 27 Met AspPro Glu Gly Gly Arg Lys Gly Ser Ala Glu Lys Asn Phe Trp 1 5 10 15 LysMet Gly Lys Lys Ser Lys Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys Lys Pro 20 25 30 ThrVal Ser Thr Phe Ala Met Phe Arg Tyr Ser Asn Trp Leu Asp Arg 35 40 45 LeuTyr Met Leu Val Gly Thr Met Ala Ala Ile Ile His Gly Ala Ala 50 55 60 LeuPro Leu Met Met Leu Val Phe Gly Asn Met Thr Asp Ser Phe Ala 65 70 75 80Asn Ala Gly Ile Ser Arg Asn Lys Thr Phe Pro Val Ile Ile Asn Glu 85 90 95Ser Ile Thr Asn Asn Thr Gln His Phe Ile Asn His Leu Glu Glu Glu 100 105110 Met Thr Thr Tyr Ala Tyr Tyr Tyr Ser Gly Ile Gly Ala Gly Val Leu 115120 125 Val Ala Ala Tyr Ile Gln Val Ser Phe Trp Cys Leu Ala Ala Gly Arg130 135 140 Gln Ile Leu Lys Ile Arg Lys Gln Phe Phe His Ala Ile Met ArgGln 145 150 155 160 Glu Ile Gly Trp Phe Asp Val His Asp Val Gly Glu LeuAsn Thr Arg 165 170 175 Leu Thr Asp Asp Val Ser Lys Ile Asn Glu Gly IleGly Asp Lys Ile 180 185 190 Gly Met Phe Phe Gln Ser Ile Ala Thr Phe PheThr Gly Phe Ile Val 195 200 205 Gly Phe Thr Arg Gly Trp Lys Leu Thr LeuVal Ile Leu Ala Ile Ser 210 215 220 Pro Val Leu Gly Leu Ser Ala Ala IleTrp Ala Lys Ile Leu Ser Ser 225 230 235 240 Phe Thr Asp Lys Glu Leu LeuAla Tyr Ala Lys Ala Gly Ala Val Ala 245 250 255 Glu Glu Val Leu Ala AlaIle Arg Thr Val Ile Ala Phe Gly Gly Gln 260 265 270 Lys Lys Glu Leu GluArg Tyr Asn Lys Asn Leu Glu Glu Ala Lys Gly 275 280 285 Ile Gly Ile LysLys Ala Ile Thr Ala Asn Ile Ser Ile Gly Ala Ala 290 295 300 Phe Leu LeuIle Tyr Ala Ser Tyr Ala Leu Ala Phe Trp Tyr Gly Thr 305 310 315 320 SerLeu Val Leu Ser Ser Glu Tyr Thr Ile Gly Gln Val Leu Thr Val 325 330 335Phe Phe Ser Val Leu Ile Gly Ala Phe Ser Ile Gly Gln Ala Ser Pro 340 345350 Ser Ile Glu Ala Phe Ala Asn Ala Arg Gly Ala Ala Tyr Glu Ile Phe 355360 365 Lys Ile Ile Asp Asn Lys Pro Ser Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser Lys Ser Gly370 375 380 His Lys Pro Asp Asn Ile Lys Gly Asn Leu Glu Phe Lys Asn ValHis 385 390 395 400 Phe Ser Tyr Pro Ser Arg Lys Glu Val Lys Ile Leu LysGly Leu Asn 405 410 415 Leu Lys Val Gln Ser Gly Gln Thr Val Ala Leu ValGly Asn Ser Gly 420 425 430 Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Thr Val Gln Leu Met GlnArg Leu Tyr Asp Pro 435 440 445 Thr Asp Gly Met Val Cys Ile Asp Gly GlnAsp Ile Arg Thr Ile Asn 450 455 460 Val Arg His Leu Arg Glu Ile Thr GlyVal Val Ser Gln Glu Pro Val 465 470 475 480 Leu Phe Ala Thr Thr Ile AlaGlu Asn Ile Arg Tyr Gly Arg Glu Asn 485 490 495 Val Thr Met Asp Glu IleGlu Lys Ala Val Lys Glu Ala Asn Ala Tyr 500 505 510 Asp Phe Ile Met LysLeu Pro Asn Lys Phe Asp Thr Leu Val Gly Glu 515 520 525 Arg Gly Ala GlnLeu Ser Gly Gly Gln Lys Gln Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala 530 535 540 Arg Ala LeuVal Arg Asn Pro Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr 545 550 555 560 SerAla Leu Asp Thr Glu Ser Glu Ala Val Val Gln Val Ala Leu Asp 565 570 575Lys Ala Arg Lys Gly Arg Thr Thr Ile Val Ile Ala His Arg Leu Ser 580 585590 Thr Val Arg Asn Ala Asp Val Ile Ala Gly Phe Asp Asp Gly Val Ile 595600 605 Val Glu Lys Gly Asn His Asp Glu Leu Met Lys Glu Lys Gly Ile Tyr610 615 620 Phe Lys Leu Val Thr Met Gln Thr Arg Gly Asn Glu Ile Glu LeuGlu 625 630 635 640 Asn Ala Thr Gly Glu Ser Lys Ser Glu Ser Asp Ala LeuGlu Met Ser 645 650 655 Pro Lys Asp Ser Gly Ser Ser Leu Ile Lys Arg ArgSer Thr Arg Arg 660 665 670 Ser Ile His Ala Pro Gln Gly Gln Asp Arg LysLeu Gly Thr Lys Glu 675 680 685 Asp Leu Asn Glu Asn Val Pro Pro Val SerPhe Trp Arg Ile Leu Lys 690 695 700 Leu Asn Ser Thr Glu Trp Pro Tyr PheVal Val Gly Ile Phe Cys Ala 705 710 715 720 Ile Ile Asn Gly Gly Leu GlnPro Ala Phe Ser Ile Ile Phe Ser Arg 725 730 735 Ile Ile Gly Ile Phe ThrArg Asp Glu Asp Pro Glu Thr Lys Arg Gln 740 745 750 Asn Ser Asn Met PheSer Val Leu Phe Leu Val Leu Gly Ile Ile Ser 755 760 765 Phe Ile Thr PhePhe Leu Gln Gly Phe Thr Phe Gly Lys Ala Gly Glu 770 775 780 Ile Leu ThrLys Arg Leu Arg Tyr Met Val Phe Arg Ser Met Leu Arg 785 790 795 800 GlnAsp Val Ser Trp Phe Asp Asp Pro Lys Asn Thr Thr Gly Ala Leu 805 810 815Thr Thr Arg Leu Ala Asn Asp Ala Ala Gln Val Lys Gly Ala Ile Gly 820 825830 Ser Arg Leu Ala Val Ile Thr Gln Asn Ile Ala Asn Leu Gly Thr Gly 835840 845 Ile Ile Ile Ser Leu Ile Tyr Gly Trp Gln Leu Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu850 855 860 Ala Ile Val Pro Ile Ile Ala Ile Ala Gly Val Val Glu Met LysMet 865 870 875 880 Leu Ser Gly Gln Ala Leu Lys Asp Lys Lys Glu Leu GluGly Ala Gly 885 890 895 Lys Ile Ala Thr Glu Ala Ile Glu Asn Phe Arg ThrVal Val Ser Leu 900 905 910 Thr Arg Glu Gln Lys Phe Glu Tyr Met Tyr AlaGln Ser Leu Gln Val 915 920 925 Pro Tyr Arg Asn Ser Leu Arg Lys Ala HisIle Phe Gly Val Ser Phe 930 935 940 Ser Ile Thr Gln Ala Met Met Tyr PheSer Tyr Ala Gly Cys Phe Arg 945 950 955 960 Phe Gly Ala Tyr Leu Val AlaAsn Glu Phe Met Asn Phe Gln Asp Val 965 970 975 Leu Leu Val Phe Ser AlaIle Val Phe Gly Ala Met Ala Val Gly Gln 980 985 990 Val Ser Ser Phe AlaPro Asp Tyr Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Ser Ala Ala 995 1000 1005 His Val IleMet Ile Ile Glu Lys Ser Pro Leu Ile Asp Ser Tyr Ser 1010 1015 1020 ProHis Gly Leu Lys Pro Asn Thr Leu Glu Gly Asn Val Thr Phe Asn 1025 10301035 1040 Glu Val Val Phe Asn Tyr Pro Thr Arg Pro Asp Ile Pro Val LeuGln 1045 1050 1055 Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Val Lys Lys Gly Gln Thr Leu AlaLeu Val Gly 1060 1065 1070 Ser Ser Gly Cys Gly Lys Ser Thr Val Val GlnLeu Leu Glu Arg Phe 1075 1080 1085 Tyr Asp Pro Leu Ala Gly Ser Val LeuIle Asp Gly Lys Glu Ile Lys 1090 1095 1100 His Leu Asn Val Gln Trp LeuArg Ala His Leu Gly Ile Val Ser Gln 1105 1110 1115 1120 Glu Pro Ile LeuPhe Asp Cys Ser Ile Ala Glu Asn Ile Ala Tyr Gly 1125 1130 1135 Asp AsnSer Arg Val Val Ser His Glu Glu Ile Val Gln Ala Ala Lys 1140 1145 1150Glu Ala Asn Ile His His Phe Ile Glu Thr Leu Pro Glu Lys Tyr Asn 11551160 1165 Thr Arg Val Gly Asp Lys Gly Thr Gln Leu Ser Gly Gly Gln LysGln 1170 1175 1180 Arg Ile Ala Ile Ala Arg Ala Leu Val Arg Gln Pro HisIle Leu Leu 1185 1190 1195 1200 Leu Asp Glu Ala Thr Ser Ala Leu Asp ThrGlu Ser Glu Lys Val Val 1205 1210 1215 Gln Glu Ala Leu Asp Lys Ala ArgGlu Gly Arg Thr Cys Ile Val Ile 1220 1225 1230 Ala His Arg Leu Ser ThrIle Gln Asn Ala Asp Leu Ile Val Val Phe 1235 1240 1245 Gln Asn Gly LysVal Lys Glu His Gly Thr His Gln Gln Leu Leu Ala 1250 1255 1260 Gln LysGly Ile Tyr Phe Ser Met Val Ser Val Gln Ala Gly Ala Lys 1265 1270 12751280 Arg 28 52 DNA Artificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 28nntttttttt tttttttttt tttttttttt ttcgccggcg acttaagatc tt 52 29 27 DNAArtificial Sequence Synthetic oligonucleotide 29 ccatcctaat acgactcactgtagggc 27 30 34 DNA Canis familiaris 30 gcaaatgctt caatgcttggggatgcctgt ccaa 34 31 33 DNA Canis familiaris 31 gagctgggtt cctttgtctcctactctggt gtt 33 32 23 DNA Canis familiaris 32 gcaaatgctg gttgcaggcctcc 23

What is claimed is:
 1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule that codes forthe amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and complements thereof.
 2. Anisolated nucleic acid molecule that codes for the amino acid sequence ofSEQ ID NO:2, wherein the isolated nucleic acid comprises the nucleotidesequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
 3. An isolated nucleic acid molecule that codesfor the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the isolated nucleicacid comprises the coding region of SEQ ID NO:1.
 4. An expression vectorcomprising the isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 operably linkedto a promoter.
 5. A host cell transformed or transfected with theexpression vector of claim 4.